The fact that your stuff didn't work off the bat is probably because it's specialized hardware, or something very non-standard that probably came with a driver disk for that purpose. If you lost it how is that XP's fault?
Well, I have an older miro pctv pro tv+fm tuner card here (yes, before pinnacle). In all versions of windows it is considered an out of planet wierdo. How is "this" xp's fault ? Well, how many times do we here how linux will be going down in hell because crappy driver "support" as you call it. What I see is as long as I care to buy quaity hardware which I know linuxes support (and believe me, there are hell many, believe it or not), I couldn't care less about drivers because it just works. And this is not just a matter of zealot belief, it is a (re-)provable fact.
Hell, how much trouble I had few (~2) years back when I just couldn't manage to capture in bigger size than qpal (not with the above old miro, but a newer leadtek card). It took about 4 driver trials and a few capture apps till I finally could make it happen. It took me a kernel module compile and a two line config edit (all in a few minutes) to capture in all sizes and shapes with mencoder.
Something other: I constantly try newer versions of some distros. Many of them (and I mean _many_) get theirselves installed more easy than any windows version up to this day can do. Do you know the fear from the back of your mind that what wil happen if your windows which sits on a sata disk partition besides some other OS will blow itself up and 1). you don't have an fdd for years now (yes, sata drivers), 2). if you manage to reinstall it will blow away your mbr if you aren't smarter 3). you'll have to activate the darn thing, again.
Or use some damn free and cool resident protection software, like avast, which is my favourite for about a year now. Saved some trouble many times. Even offers breaking connection to sites which try to execute some bonzy.
I think you meant to write illegal and thieving. Fact it, 90% of BT traffic was copyrighted material that was illegal to distribute.
You mean the about 60gigs of linux install images and live disks for x86 and amd64 I download monthly to keep an always uptodate collection is a unique event occuring only once a month on this planet and only I do it.
Ok, I know, I also get some series episodes from somewhere. Still, you and the like just LLLLove trashing the whole damn city out with the bathing water, not just the poor baby.
I think the name of the Patriot Act was chosen very cunningly. It's hard to erase anything with "patriot" in its name without being called anti-patriotic the next day, with or without proper reason.
Ok, so from now on the ignorance of the masses shall pevail over decisions of courts. Yes, I know I'm a bit over the edge with this, but still. If the 6packs don't get it, that doesn't mean it shouldn't have been done, or it was a bad decision. I don't say it was good either, but I admit, that something needed to be done, and this is also a bit more than nothing, and I don't think it was unnecessary. It is always good to know that such large companies are not omnipotent after all.
Anyway, this probably didn't hurt MS more than a fly on your arm. But at least was some sort of signaling towards MS that some of its practices are not really loved all around this globe, and there are ways to do at least something against them.
If I were to buy a winxp these days, which I'm absolutely not, then I'll opt for a such version, without further thought, no matter there's no price difference. I could make it perfectly multimedia-usable in 10 minutes and I'd also raise the currently probably non-existent sales numbers of the version.
Heck, if that were true, I would have abandoned my Windows box years ago.
Oh so true. My good old terratec dmx xfire sound card's windows drivers always had some problems, since the day I bought it. Also, I had to abandon the default drivers of my tuner, but thank god a GPL'd bttv wdm driver for windows does the job perfectly. At my workplace I have a usb hp printer+fax machine hooked up to my machine and shared to the rest, which'd driver is so suckingly bad that it causes BSOD every time it's switched on/off. I'm sure many people could tell even wierder stories.
three-button+wheel USB mouse out-of-box or that setting up a TV card requires you to edit some config-files by hand
Mmkay, just one quick showcase. My logitech usb mouse has a windows driver, which needs restart when installed, then I tweak its settings. My pinnacle tv card needs a windows driver installed, which also needs a restart to work. In linux my mouse works without any fuss, my tv card also works great with the bttv and I only need to seelect the tuner type in a config file. Then I'm good to go. How is the latter more hard than the first ? Oh, I know, it needs you to know what you're doing, and that usually needs some brainwork.
you encrypt - you're a terrorist
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Just remember a not so old story where there was reported the presence of e-mail encryption software was considered as evidence in some child porn case.
First they start using some very un-smart word-scanning piece of crap filtering system [and god help you if you write foreign language letters, or have a different style than the average], then they will punish the use of mail signing and encryption software [which is something I regularly do], then if the filtering still has a false positive rate above 99% they will ban e-mailing. Then they will find out other forms of efficient communication exist.
...which makes a good teacher, it's the teacher's abilities. I've met very many bad teachers and lecturers in the past. The bad ones couldn't do good teaching no matter what technology you give them. The good ones would be good with or without those tools.
As others also said, kids [as we are talking about elementary schools here] can be very well taught without unnecesarry tech equipment. Why I say unnecessary ? Because if not used well [you know, tech for tech's sake] they can turn out to be more a distraction than a helping tool.
Also, making kids familiar with technology at an early age _can_ be good. But not when these are the _only_ tools they meet. I hope they can find the best balance somewhere in between.
Exactly. Also, who has some real experience with rdbms has to know that there could be actions which are just as wierd to do on a db-based filesystem than easily finding something you lost on old school filesystems. After months of usage I found that using the same old dir-file hierarchy system with google's desktop search in the background is seemingly everything I need. I use the desktop search pretty rarely but on those occasions it really helps. Epecially when searching for months or years old files on multihundred gig storage or, in my case, when searching for a specific article among 9 gigs worth of electronic signal processing library pdf files.
I would say that database-like filesystem handling for search&query is a good idea, shall be done natively, mainly for speed considerations [i.e. I don't want no ms sql services on top of ntfs thankyouverymuch]. But it shouldn't be made cumpolsory, because there are other users out there besides clickety joe6packs who also forget where their dirty socks are hanging.
I just saw a documentary the other day about what and how is public monitoring done in NY. They showed an office where the video and data feeds from every city organization which has planted cameras or any data acquisition system (traffic data, plane flight infos, etc.) come together to one place where they are being collected and watched over continuously. They also issue every day a terrorism warning on a 5 (IIRC) level scale which is the result of combining all the incoming data. On that sinny day the thing was filmed the warning was on the highest level.
I also heard&read stories about how people are sometimes handled at customs in the US, sometimes treated straight like criminals, and don't you dare oppose or ask questions.
Slowly, day by day, you make everything what BinL threatened with become reality. And the gov. even has an easy job since most people give up their precious freedoms all by themselves, and happily.
gets its collective head out of its ass and realizes that Apple IS the standard of nix's be it Linux or Unix
I'd say you're right, if they had any history with unixes besides osx, which they don't. OSX it's a damn fine OS, but it's not a standard of anything, not de facto and thank god not de jure. I find it very exciting that they switched, since I hope they will become a bigger counterweight of Microsoft in the x86 world, and that simply can't be bad:P But I don't think it will hurt Linux, since it just can't. As much as Windows/MS never could. Linux just grew stronger. And I think more competition will make it grow even stronger.
so why don't the copyright holders have to pay a tax
Simply because that would be insane. For if you ever wrote a poem you'd have to pay for it, which sounds just crap. If you go to a publisher, and sell those poems by twelve a dozen, then he's got income, you've got income, and hey, if you don't live on the moon's dark side, you have to pay taxes after all that, don't you.
I have to tell, none of my friends, relatives, close or distant acquaintances have ever bought a "desktop" computer that I know of. I also always build my own PCs, from parts I want. Those who can't or won't build, ask others who can and will to make it for them. I know that this is absolutely not the general case since awful lot of people and - most of all - companies buy their machines as a whole, and that's what the article's numbers come from. I own PCs for about 10 years now, and not one of them was bought prebuilt. I also have stinking bad stories with prebuilt PCs which are purchased @ work, quite a few, which also made me promise to myself not to ever buy them.
It's not even funny when so clueless people spread their stupidity anymore.
Konqueror has been a very great browser for quite a long time, and khtml has been a very nice html rendering engine for also quite a long time. Now people like you come along and start preaching that they are nothing and can't "keep up" with webcore/osx team, but you forget one thing: it was the webcore team that picked khtml because it was nicely written, fast and easy to fork from.
The konqueror and khtml team(s) are just very great guys doing a wonderful job. Instead of spreading sh*t you'd just better admit their abilities or simply get lost.
I'm mostly dealing with image and video processing, graphics and film restoration r&d on a daily basis. I also had extended studies regarding a wide range of aspects of color reproduction theory and application. Ain't no way LCD/TFTs could knock out good old well-calibrated giant high frequency CRTs in the color reproduction arena anytime soon. Still, this story [i.e. LCDs rule CRTs suck] raise from time to time since years now. I don't say there won't be a time when flat panel monitors will rule, I just argue they won't be the LCD/TFT panels we know today.
On second thought, if you rewrite the Generations and the First Contact movies fully and totally, you may have some chance to make Kirk have Borg experience _and_ live long enough to do what you want:))
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The fact that your stuff didn't work off the bat is probably because it's specialized hardware, or something very non-standard that probably came with a driver disk for that purpose. If you lost it how is that XP's fault?
Well, I have an older miro pctv pro tv+fm tuner card here (yes, before pinnacle). In all versions of windows it is considered an out of planet wierdo. How is "this" xp's fault ? Well, how many times do we here how linux will be going down in hell because crappy driver "support" as you call it. What I see is as long as I care to buy quaity hardware which I know linuxes support (and believe me, there are hell many, believe it or not), I couldn't care less about drivers because it just works. And this is not just a matter of zealot belief, it is a (re-)provable fact.
Hell, how much trouble I had few (~2) years back when I just couldn't manage to capture in bigger size than qpal (not with the above old miro, but a newer leadtek card). It took about 4 driver trials and a few capture apps till I finally could make it happen. It took me a kernel module compile and a two line config edit (all in a few minutes) to capture in all sizes and shapes with mencoder.
Something other: I constantly try newer versions of some distros. Many of them (and I mean _many_) get theirselves installed more easy than any windows version up to this day can do. Do you know the fear from the back of your mind that what wil happen if your windows which sits on a sata disk partition besides some other OS will blow itself up and 1). you don't have an fdd for years now (yes, sata drivers), 2). if you manage to reinstall it will blow away your mbr if you aren't smarter 3). you'll have to activate the darn thing, again.
Or use some damn free and cool resident protection software, like avast, which is my favourite for about a year now. Saved some trouble many times. Even offers breaking connection to sites which try to execute some bonzy.
I think you meant to write illegal and thieving. Fact it, 90% of BT traffic was copyrighted material that was illegal to distribute.
You mean the about 60gigs of linux install images and live disks for x86 and amd64 I download monthly to keep an always uptodate collection is a unique event occuring only once a month on this planet and only I do it.
Ok, I know, I also get some series episodes from somewhere. Still, you and the like just LLLLove trashing the whole damn city out with the bathing water, not just the poor baby.
I think the name of the Patriot Act was chosen very cunningly. It's hard to erase anything with "patriot" in its name without being called anti-patriotic the next day, with or without proper reason.
Fans of the cult-hit series Firefly
:P Seriously, who's arse are ya licking here ?
Cult hit, yes ? Wow. Did I say, wow ?
Perhaps the EU's actions were unnecessary?
Ok, so from now on the ignorance of the masses shall pevail over decisions of courts. Yes, I know I'm a bit over the edge with this, but still. If the 6packs don't get it, that doesn't mean it shouldn't have been done, or it was a bad decision. I don't say it was good either, but I admit, that something needed to be done, and this is also a bit more than nothing, and I don't think it was unnecessary. It is always good to know that such large companies are not omnipotent after all.
Anyway, this probably didn't hurt MS more than a fly on your arm. But at least was some sort of signaling towards MS that some of its practices are not really loved all around this globe, and there are ways to do at least something against them.
If I were to buy a winxp these days, which I'm absolutely not, then I'll opt for a such version, without further thought, no matter there's no price difference. I could make it perfectly multimedia-usable in 10 minutes and I'd also raise the currently probably non-existent sales numbers of the version.
Heck, if that were true, I would have abandoned my Windows box years ago.
Oh so true. My good old terratec dmx xfire sound card's windows drivers always had some problems, since the day I bought it. Also, I had to abandon the default drivers of my tuner, but thank god a GPL'd bttv wdm driver for windows does the job perfectly. At my workplace I have a usb hp printer+fax machine hooked up to my machine and shared to the rest, which'd driver is so suckingly bad that it causes BSOD every time it's switched on/off. I'm sure many people could tell even wierder stories.
three-button+wheel USB mouse out-of-box or that setting up a TV card requires you to edit some config-files by hand
Mmkay, just one quick showcase. My logitech usb mouse has a windows driver, which needs restart when installed, then I tweak its settings. My pinnacle tv card needs a windows driver installed, which also needs a restart to work. In linux my mouse works without any fuss, my tv card also works great with the bttv and I only need to seelect the tuner type in a config file. Then I'm good to go. How is the latter more hard than the first ? Oh, I know, it needs you to know what you're doing, and that usually needs some brainwork.
Just remember a not so old story where there was reported the presence of e-mail encryption software was considered as evidence in some child porn case.
First they start using some very un-smart word-scanning piece of crap filtering system [and god help you if you write foreign language letters, or have a different style than the average], then they will punish the use of mail signing and encryption software [which is something I regularly do], then if the filtering still has a false positive rate above 99% they will ban e-mailing. Then they will find out other forms of efficient communication exist.
In fact, if they search for mails that are different from the mass of mails, every normal mail will be flagged, since spam is _the_ mass mail :]
Otherwise, they're just words
Well, well, sometimes some people suddenly seem to get it.
China is the real threat to democracy and freedom
Ok, so they're terrorists now and you can go and erase them too while you're at it.
Kontact and/with Korganizer do their thing quite nice.
it won't do much good since their [stegano] goal is not to hide their behaviour from visual inspection of the code... Seek further.
...which makes a good teacher, it's the teacher's abilities. I've met very many bad teachers and lecturers in the past. The bad ones couldn't do good teaching no matter what technology you give them. The good ones would be good with or without those tools.
As others also said, kids [as we are talking about elementary schools here] can be very well taught without unnecesarry tech equipment. Why I say unnecessary ? Because if not used well [you know, tech for tech's sake] they can turn out to be more a distraction than a helping tool.
Also, making kids familiar with technology at an early age _can_ be good. But not when these are the _only_ tools they meet. I hope they can find the best balance somewhere in between.
Exactly. Also, who has some real experience with rdbms has to know that there could be actions which are just as wierd to do on a db-based filesystem than easily finding something you lost on old school filesystems. After months of usage I found that using the same old dir-file hierarchy system with google's desktop search in the background is seemingly everything I need. I use the desktop search pretty rarely but on those occasions it really helps. Epecially when searching for months or years old files on multihundred gig storage or, in my case, when searching for a specific article among 9 gigs worth of electronic signal processing library pdf files.
I would say that database-like filesystem handling for search&query is a good idea, shall be done natively, mainly for speed considerations [i.e. I don't want no ms sql services on top of ntfs thankyouverymuch]. But it shouldn't be made cumpolsory, because there are other users out there besides clickety joe6packs who also forget where their dirty socks are hanging.
I just saw a documentary the other day about what and how is public monitoring done in NY. They showed an office where the video and data feeds from every city organization which has planted cameras or any data acquisition system (traffic data, plane flight infos, etc.) come together to one place where they are being collected and watched over continuously. They also issue every day a terrorism warning on a 5 (IIRC) level scale which is the result of combining all the incoming data. On that sinny day the thing was filmed the warning was on the highest level.
I also heard&read stories about how people are sometimes handled at customs in the US, sometimes treated straight like criminals, and don't you dare oppose or ask questions.
Slowly, day by day, you make everything what BinL threatened with become reality. And the gov. even has an easy job since most people give up their precious freedoms all by themselves, and happily.
gets its collective head out of its ass and realizes that Apple IS the standard of nix's be it Linux or Unix
:P But I don't think it will hurt Linux, since it just can't. As much as Windows/MS never could. Linux just grew stronger. And I think more competition will make it grow even stronger.
I'd say you're right, if they had any history with unixes besides osx, which they don't. OSX it's a damn fine OS, but it's not a standard of anything, not de facto and thank god not de jure. I find it very exciting that they switched, since I hope they will become a bigger counterweight of Microsoft in the x86 world, and that simply can't be bad
so why don't the copyright holders have to pay a tax
Simply because that would be insane. For if you ever wrote a poem you'd have to pay for it, which sounds just crap. If you go to a publisher, and sell those poems by twelve a dozen, then he's got income, you've got income, and hey, if you don't live on the moon's dark side, you have to pay taxes after all that, don't you.
I have to tell, none of my friends, relatives, close or distant acquaintances have ever bought a "desktop" computer that I know of. I also always build my own PCs, from parts I want. Those who can't or won't build, ask others who can and will to make it for them. I know that this is absolutely not the general case since awful lot of people and - most of all - companies buy their machines as a whole, and that's what the article's numbers come from. I own PCs for about 10 years now, and not one of them was bought prebuilt. I also have stinking bad stories with prebuilt PCs which are purchased @ work, quite a few, which also made me promise to myself not to ever buy them.
Unless KHTML receives extra resources
It's not even funny when so clueless people spread their stupidity anymore.
Konqueror has been a very great browser for quite a long time, and khtml has been a very nice html rendering engine for also quite a long time. Now people like you come along and start preaching that they are nothing and can't "keep up" with webcore/osx team, but you forget one thing: it was the webcore team that picked khtml because it was nicely written, fast and easy to fork from.
The konqueror and khtml team(s) are just very great guys doing a wonderful job. Instead of spreading sh*t you'd just better admit their abilities or simply get lost.
I'm mostly dealing with image and video processing, graphics and film restoration r&d on a daily basis. I also had extended studies regarding a wide range of aspects of color reproduction theory and application. Ain't no way LCD/TFTs could knock out good old well-calibrated giant high frequency CRTs in the color reproduction arena anytime soon. Still, this story [i.e. LCDs rule CRTs suck] raise from time to time since years now. I don't say there won't be a time when flat panel monitors will rule, I just argue they won't be the LCD/TFT panels we know today.
I love how you believe "churning out research papers" is somehow orthogonal to doing research.
You'd be surprised...
On second thought, if you rewrite the Generations and the First Contact movies fully and totally, you may have some chance to make Kirk have Borg experience _and_ live long enough to do what you want :))
The Borg are attacking, in the most massive invasion ever. Kirk is retired, but is called back to help set a defesne gird.
Yeah, because Kirk has so great experience with the Borg.