It was also the last one I installed. To me it was good enough. All I needed was something that showed the programs on my screens. So I then went to Windowmaker on Linux.
Because of reasons I started using XFCE, because bothe KDE and GNOME want to do so much more shit.
I used to like all the different programs in Linux doing all the different things. Now we have systemd, that tries to do everything just to run KDFE or GNOME trying to do everything just to run a browser that tries to run everything.
So yes, I liked Windows 95. And I am talking about the first version. The one without IE.
Airlines up their prices when the demand is higher. Economics 101. The same goes for a LOT of other things as well.
However it does not explain why a ticket New York - Brussels New York is more expensive than Brussels New -York - Brussels. I am talking about the same flights with the same company in the same seat on the same dates.
Where I work (Belgium) we are not allowed to accept customer contracts via email or fax. We need the original signature. Otherwise the documents are not legal. In other places faxes can be accepted and even emails.
We are now working on a complete electronic system that uses the ID card that everybody MUST have. http://eid.belgium.be/ Many people have cardreaders to fill out their taxes already and the surce is open and available for various systems, inluding Linux.
So what is possible in one country is not possible in another country and it varies even within the country. As if the EU is made up of different countries and not just states.
I would much more be interested in the signing part than I am in the private part. Why do I not get signed emails from my bank? The ones that say my bill is available online?
Why does virtually nobody use signing of their emails? And again, I am not so much interested in secrecy. What I would LOVE to see is people signing their emails with a secure and verifiable signature.
If that is used, people will find out that encryption is an option that they could use. I am sure GMail and Microsoft could implement it by default pretty easy as well as Mac. If we have those three, the rest will follow.
And again: I am just talking about digital signing, not about encryption. That way I am finally able to see the REAL prince of Nigeria mail that he is sending me.
You make it sound like a bad thing.I see taking a picture as a privilege, not a right. I also think that robot.txt should hold the include, not the exclude.
I do know that I am almost alone in these ideas and that it will never happen. Not because of companies, but because people do not understand what privacy is.
To me public means everything that is not private and that means it can include things in public places. Many others (especially in the US) think that private means everything that is not public.
So for me taking a picture of me in a public place should not be allowed. For others, taking a picture when you forgot to close the curtains should be allowed.
I am not saying my idea is better (although I think it is). I just point out the completely different points of view that excist.
Pay the coach based on tickets sales? Why? Are they a professional team? Then they have no place in the school system. If people are following sports to become a sportser, then just pay the coach as all the rest.
Or are others payed on performance of the students as well?
It is a combination of things and one does not exlude the other. Rather it enforces the other.
And even if they are not told that they have to tell how great it is, they will, because otherwise the companies stop sending them free stuff.
If you see how elaborate some of these free packages are, it is clear that they are to impress the people with the box more than what is on the inside.
The vloggers need those free gifts so they get more viewers, so they get more money from ads.
That this works, you can see with Linus Tech Tips who just moved to a new warehouse with a staf of 7 or 8 people.
At least he is pretty honest about it, so that is nice.
You compare vido-sharing, which is an act to murder, wich is something describing a crime.
What you should compare is video-sharing and killing people. Killing people, just like video-sharing can be completely legal. e.g. in a war or in self defence.
Counterpoint: copyright infringement is never legal, but taking somebodies life can be.
OK, so you want to add a RPi to the product? That means another 25USD. That means 75USD to 100USD added to the price. And for what? Steel instead of plastic would incvrease the price as well.
I have one and have absolutely no problem with them. My main problem is the light on top. Way to light and it does not turn off.
However I have that issue with almost anything electric. Regardless if they have a red or blue LED or some other light, they are all way to bright. Some gorillatape and I do not see the light anymore.
I see no advantage for any added inteligence. As far as I can tell it does what it needs to do every day when I am not home anyway. Perhaps it could do whatever it does more intelligently and faster and what not, but I am not there to see it, so I do not care.
I have mine now for two years and all I needed to replace where the filters.
That said, I live in a studio and YMMV. I must say that it helped keeping the place clutterfree as well as it would hang in e.g. clothes on the floor.
I was bored with windows. All I could do was copy and paste some things into the reagistry and I wanted to do more. I also disliked the fact that I could not see my desktop. Why have wallpapers if you can't see them.
I then saw a cow orker using Enlightenment! with a transparent terminal and that was what I wanted. So I bought a magazine with RedHat on a CD on it and that did not work. I then bought one with S.u.S.E. as it was called then and that did work. I believ it was 5.2 or 5.4.
Started buying the boxed sets untill Novell started sending them to me.
I was stuck at the prompt at first, but a week later I learned that I had to type root.
I assume that ReykjavÃk Pride is the Gay Pride Parade where people celebrate that they like people of the same gender. How much larger is it compare to the Hetero Pride Parade, where people celebrate their fondness of the opposite gender?
I did a lot of numbercrunching. I ALWAYS asked what they wanted the numbers for and what their goal was. No, I was not going to falsify any numbers. I would just think about what numbers they did not ask for, yet could help whatever they were after.
One of the most difficult things was productivity. In a callcenter you are able to measure almost everyting. The downside is that you have all the numbers. So if a call takes 6 minutes (including after call work) it was almost impossible to explain why people would never have 10 calls. If they didn't, the people, department and manager would look lazy. This already takes into account the 15 minutes break in the morning and in the afternoon, the lunchbreak, meetings, training and what not.
I have only seen one CEO smart enough to say to the call center manager: I do not understand it, but I trust you and if you say that 75% productivaty is very good, then I am going to trust you and believe you.
That does not mean numbers are useless. They can be great indicators if you know what you are looking for and if you want objectivaty. e.g. on the day that was the one with the least calls, we also did the lowest numbers. Why? Because there were less calls, people could get half a day or a day off easier (This is Europe) than on other days. Mondays was the day with the most calls, so almost no days off were given. This ment that there would be less people compared to the amount of calls that were coming in. Increased the FTE account just a fraction and numbers were good and decreased them on tuesday and targets were hit all the time.
But yeah, productivaty is a horible way to measure anything, unless you know ALL the other factors and even then you will NEVER reach 100%. And if you reach 100%, you can bet any if not allof the other numbers are way off.
Except for the euthanize part, I am all for it. Close the circus for public. Add no new animals by breeding or otherwise.
The same should happen with zoos.
Some people will say that the animals are becoming extinct, but if the animals have no way of returning, then just saving them because it is nice to have them, then we should not keep them.
If there is a chance that we can bring them back to the wild, we do not need the public to see them.
I would say: do it in steps. 1) Close these for the public 2) See that no animals are being added 3) Send those back that can be send back 4) Keep those that ca not be send back. As no new animals are added, this will solve itself in time.
I have more than10 programs open. I have 4 monitors with 5 desktops. When I log in after a shutdown, the progra,s open. Not only those that I want open, they open on what screen and what desktop I want them in the layout I want them.
And even if I would close all programs, I can open them all where I want them and how I want them with the click of 1 button.
Sure, bit scripting and some programs are a pain, because they do not like to behave (Firefox: here's looking at you, kid) yet it still is possible. It even checks if the progra,s are already running or not.
I do not have a scale at home and I buy my tickets online. The last time I was on a scale at the doctor and I told him NOT to tell me. So what should I pay?
OTOH it is not farie that a 200KG person can take his 25KG luggage, but a 75KG person must pay extra for a 30KG suitcase.
But pricing is silly anyway. Many people on the same type of seat on the same flight booked at the same moment will still pay differently. e.g. Brussels NYC Brussels is cheaper than NYC Brussels NYC. Some people used to fly NYC-London-Rotterdam and not take the last part of the flight, because it was cheaper than to just book NYC-London on the same plane with the same company.
Prices are crazy confusing. Even in Europe, where most pices must be shown all-inclusive, they tend to be unclear on what you pay till you get the bill from your credit card provider.
I DO mind ads. Noifs and buts. I understand why they exist, yet I do not want to see them. A bit like syphilis. So I try to avoid them as much as possible with any means possible.
I did not ask for them. I do not like them. I do not want them.
I do not want the video ads. I do not want the GIF ads. I do not want the static ads. I do not want the text ads. And as always here a quote from Banksy who says it way much better than I can:
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply youâ(TM)re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. Itâ(TM)s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially donâ(TM)t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, donâ(TM)t even start asking for theirs.
To be honest, if the Devil does it and God doesn't, I rather side with The Devil. But that is just a personal preference (that will be downvoted by people who disagree with how I think.)
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I wanted to start a project, but the domain linux.org was already taken.
Also I predict that the majority of people will not give a shit and as long as they make money, it dosn't matter who says no.
It was also the last one I installed. To me it was good enough. All I needed was something that showed the programs on my screens. So I then went to Windowmaker on Linux.
Because of reasons I started using XFCE, because bothe KDE and GNOME want to do so much more shit.
I used to like all the different programs in Linux doing all the different things. Now we have systemd, that tries to do everything just to run KDFE or GNOME trying to do everything just to run a browser that tries to run everything.
So yes, I liked Windows 95. And I am talking about the first version. The one without IE.
Airlines up their prices when the demand is higher. Economics 101. The same goes for a LOT of other things as well.
However it does not explain why a ticket New York - Brussels New York is more expensive than Brussels New -York - Brussels. I am talking about the same flights with the same company in the same seat on the same dates.
Where I work (Belgium) we are not allowed to accept customer contracts via email or fax. We need the original signature. Otherwise the documents are not legal.
In other places faxes can be accepted and even emails.
We are now working on a complete electronic system that uses the ID card that everybody MUST have. http://eid.belgium.be/
Many people have cardreaders to fill out their taxes already and the surce is open and available for various systems, inluding Linux.
So what is possible in one country is not possible in another country and it varies even within the country. As if the EU is made up of different countries and not just states.
I would much more be interested in the signing part than I am in the private part. Why do I not get signed emails from my bank? The ones that say my bill is available online?
Why does virtually nobody use signing of their emails? And again, I am not so much interested in secrecy. What I would LOVE to see is people signing their emails with a secure and verifiable signature.
If that is used, people will find out that encryption is an option that they could use. I am sure GMail and Microsoft could implement it by default pretty easy as well as Mac. If we have those three, the rest will follow.
And again: I am just talking about digital signing, not about encryption. That way I am finally able to see the REAL prince of Nigeria mail that he is sending me.
You make it sound like a bad thing.I see taking a picture as a privilege, not a right.
I also think that robot.txt should hold the include, not the exclude.
I do know that I am almost alone in these ideas and that it will never happen. Not because of companies, but because people do not understand what privacy is.
To me public means everything that is not private and that means it can include things in public places.
Many others (especially in the US) think that private means everything that is not public.
So for me taking a picture of me in a public place should not be allowed. For others, taking a picture when you forgot to close the curtains should be allowed.
I am not saying my idea is better (although I think it is). I just point out the completely different points of view that excist.
That is why univeristies in Europe are so shitty, right?
Pay the coach based on tickets sales? Why? Are they a professional team? Then they have no place in the school system. If people are following sports to become a sportser, then just pay the coach as all the rest.
Or are others payed on performance of the students as well?
It is a combination of things and one does not exlude the other. Rather it enforces the other.
And even if they are not told that they have to tell how great it is, they will, because otherwise the companies stop sending them free stuff.
If you see how elaborate some of these free packages are, it is clear that they are to impress the people with the box more than what is on the inside.
The vloggers need those free gifts so they get more viewers, so they get more money from ads.
That this works, you can see with Linus Tech Tips who just moved to a new warehouse with a staf of 7 or 8 people.
At least he is pretty honest about it, so that is nice.
You compare vido-sharing, which is an act to murder, wich is something describing a crime.
What you should compare is video-sharing and killing people.
Killing people, just like video-sharing can be completely legal. e.g. in a war or in self defence.
Counterpoint: copyright infringement is never legal, but taking somebodies life can be.
OK, so you want to add a RPi to the product? That means another 25USD. That means 75USD to 100USD added to the price. And for what?
Steel instead of plastic would incvrease the price as well.
I have one and have absolutely no problem with them. My main problem is the light on top. Way to light and it does not turn off.
However I have that issue with almost anything electric. Regardless if they have a red or blue LED or some other light, they are all way to bright. Some gorillatape and I do not see the light anymore.
I see no advantage for any added inteligence. As far as I can tell it does what it needs to do every day when I am not home anyway. Perhaps it could do whatever it does more intelligently and faster and what not, but I am not there to see it, so I do not care.
I have mine now for two years and all I needed to replace where the filters.
That said, I live in a studio and YMMV. I must say that it helped keeping the place clutterfree as well as it would hang in e.g. clothes on the floor.
I was bored with windows. All I could do was copy and paste some things into the reagistry and I wanted to do more. I also disliked the fact that I could not see my desktop. Why have wallpapers if you can't see them.
I then saw a cow orker using Enlightenment! with a transparent terminal and that was what I wanted. So I bought a magazine with RedHat on a CD on it and that did not work. I then bought one with S.u.S.E. as it was called then and that did work. I believ it was 5.2 or 5.4.
Started buying the boxed sets untill Novell started sending them to me.
I was stuck at the prompt at first, but a week later I learned that I had to type root.
I assume that ReykjavÃk Pride is the Gay Pride Parade where people celebrate that they like people of the same gender.
How much larger is it compare to the Hetero Pride Parade, where people celebrate their fondness of the opposite gender?
I have the same sympathy for somebody for who was hacker through a sony website hack, target POS hack or a website to cheat;
This because I do not only say that I believe their sex lives is their own business. I also act like it.
The word 'But' automagically means that whatever you said before is not true e.g. I am not racist, but .
Sex between sexes leads to babies. Babies die or become people who also die. So hetero sex leads to death.
Let us ban hetero sex.
I did a lot of numbercrunching. I ALWAYS asked what they wanted the numbers for and what their goal was. No, I was not going to falsify any numbers. I would just think about what numbers they did not ask for, yet could help whatever they were after.
One of the most difficult things was productivity. In a callcenter you are able to measure almost everyting. The downside is that you have all the numbers.
So if a call takes 6 minutes (including after call work) it was almost impossible to explain why people would never have 10 calls. If they didn't, the people, department and manager would look lazy.
This already takes into account the 15 minutes break in the morning and in the afternoon, the lunchbreak, meetings, training and what not.
I have only seen one CEO smart enough to say to the call center manager: I do not understand it, but I trust you and if you say that 75% productivaty is very good, then I am going to trust you and believe you.
That does not mean numbers are useless. They can be great indicators if you know what you are looking for and if you want objectivaty. e.g. on the day that was the one with the least calls, we also did the lowest numbers. Why? Because there were less calls, people could get half a day or a day off easier (This is Europe) than on other days.
Mondays was the day with the most calls, so almost no days off were given.
This ment that there would be less people compared to the amount of calls that were coming in. Increased the FTE account just a fraction and numbers were good and decreased them on tuesday and targets were hit all the time.
But yeah, productivaty is a horible way to measure anything, unless you know ALL the other factors and even then you will NEVER reach 100%. And if you reach 100%, you can bet any if not allof the other numbers are way off.
Except for the euthanize part, I am all for it. Close the circus for public. Add no new animals by breeding or otherwise.
The same should happen with zoos.
Some people will say that the animals are becoming extinct, but if the animals have no way of returning, then just saving them because it is nice to have them, then we should not keep them.
If there is a chance that we can bring them back to the wild, we do not need the public to see them.
I would say: do it in steps.
1) Close these for the public
2) See that no animals are being added
3) Send those back that can be send back
4) Keep those that ca not be send back. As no new animals are added, this will solve itself in time.
I have more than10 programs open. I have 4 monitors with 5 desktops. When I log in after a shutdown, the progra,s open. Not only those that I want open, they open on what screen and what desktop I want them in the layout I want them.
And even if I would close all programs, I can open them all where I want them and how I want them with the click of 1 button.
Sure, bit scripting and some programs are a pain, because they do not like to behave (Firefox: here's looking at you, kid) yet it still is possible.
It even checks if the progra,s are already running or not.
To me suspend is a nice to have, not a must have.
And not that much is lost, to be honest. With boot times on most newer machines to be fast, the gain I get from suspend is minimal.
I have no issues with the 30 second (if that) of boottime compared to the 5 seconds (id that) after a suspend.
I can imagine that it is different if you shutdown your machine several times a day. I just turn it on in the morning and turn it off in the evening.
I do not have a scale at home and I buy my tickets online. The last time I was on a scale at the doctor and I told him NOT to tell me. So what should I pay?
OTOH it is not farie that a 200KG person can take his 25KG luggage, but a 75KG person must pay extra for a 30KG suitcase.
But pricing is silly anyway. Many people on the same type of seat on the same flight booked at the same moment will still pay differently.
e.g. Brussels NYC Brussels is cheaper than NYC Brussels NYC. Some people used to fly NYC-London-Rotterdam and not take the last part of the flight, because it was cheaper than to just book NYC-London on the same plane with the same company.
Prices are crazy confusing. Even in Europe, where most pices must be shown all-inclusive, they tend to be unclear on what you pay till you get the bill from your credit card provider.
Advertisement is a great idea, but I rather help them with my wallet.
To help the drought victims in California I buy a lot of their Almonds.
OK. I blamed the NSA, just like you asked. Now what?
Who cares what he thinks? The companies do not care. The government does not care. The people do not care.
The latter will most likely side with the first and/or the second.
I DO mind ads. Noifs and buts. I understand why they exist, yet I do not want to see them. A bit like syphilis. So I try to avoid them as much as possible with any means possible.
I did not ask for them. I do not like them. I do not want them.
I do not want the video ads. I do not want the GIF ads. I do not want the static ads. I do not want the text ads. And as always here a quote from Banksy who says it way much better than I can:
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply youâ(TM)re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. Itâ(TM)s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially donâ(TM)t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, donâ(TM)t even start asking for theirs.
â" Banksy
To be honest, if the Devil does it and God doesn't, I rather side with The Devil. But that is just a personal preference (that will be downvoted by people who disagree with how I think.)