For what is worth, is it possible to format an SD or USB thumb drive in any way using the GUI?? I could not find how to do such a thing in Ubuntu (Gnome), Fedora or KDE, the last time I tried (about a month ago), so I had to reboot to windows to do it with a simple right-click format.
know that any x.0 release, of anything, will be buggy, unstable, and generally not for production use. x.0 means "it runs more than it crashes; but don't expect any sort of solid stability, to get any work done, or for anything to be exactly the same in the x.1 release"
Is that the standard for Open Source projects? if that is, then it is sad. Usually a x.0 release starts with 1.0, marking the first feature complete, tested and QA-ed and out of alpha and beta test software.
Version minor version revisions were usually caused by minor modifications (i.e., minor feature enhancements). Whereas mayor versions implied a major rewrite, major feature additions or whatnot.
I think what they should have done to name what they released as KDE 4.0 something like Klibs 4. In order to make very clear that what they were releasing was just the underlying stuff.
Maybe they could have even released the K Desktop Envionment 4 as a "public Alpha".
That way media and people would not be confused about WTF to expect from "KDE 4"
I never click on embedded ads (the 3 or 4 times I did, it was on accident.) But I'm glad there are others out there who do hit them so all these free, web-based services continue to operate
Someone else wrote here on slashdot a very insightful comment concerning ads. A good ad does not need to be clicked. Compare an internet ad to say, a magazine, TV or (sadly) cinema ad. Those kinds of ads are engineered not to make you take an action at the moment you watch the ad, but just to remember the brand and certain specific snippets of information.
The problem with web ads is that the people designing the ads are approaching them in the wrong way, that is, they are designing ads with the objective of attracting people to a webpage. But a lot of time, once you are on that webpage you realize you really do not want anything from it (say, you click trying to kill the stupid flash bunny... after that you just close whatever window was opened).
There are a small number of web ads that do get the point somehow. I could see them while playing at Yahoo Games. There, you can see ads from McDonalds, Pepsi, Orange Mobile, etc. But those ads does not care if you click or not. They care that you *remember* that McDonalds is there, if you happen to be hungry. Similarly to what the ads in other media try to achieve.
I haven't read anyone state the obvious... at least for me.
My first contact with a computer was, fortunately, my first contact with a programming language. That is, LOGO.
I would strongly suggest you give a look at Starlogo TNG.
StarLogo TNG is real graphical programming in that you create programs by stacking boxes together (each box representing a different instruction like, if, then, while, etc). And the result is a 3D Turtle (yup, our beloved Logo turtle) moving in a 3D environment, which can also be modified.
I feel ya on the garbage man/janitor aspect of IT, EVERYONE seems to think IT exists just to clean their big stinking piles of maneur, even after they spread that shit everywhere. I hate it... but I'm beginning to think I've just worked in shitty places. (Which is why I am about to move to a different company).
Do not just move to another company, focus on a different type of I.T. capabilities. If what you are doing feels just like techno-plumbing, it is because companies think you only can do that well.
You should consider studying further (a Master or whanot) and going for a "real" application of computing.
That was pretty much my choice. I graduated from a Soft. Engineering career. And there, you are taught to develop/maintain software just for the sake of it. The problem is that if you do not know how ot apply your knowledge to different fields (biology, finance, physics, etc) then you will be stuck just being the hyper-technician.
There is a *lot* of demand for people with Comp. Sci. skills which can apply them to specific fields (think of, simulations, financial analysis, etc). Or more generally, people that can bridge the gap between the use of computing technolgy and the other sciences.
The first result I get is an outdated Wiki (why do I hate wikis that try to pass as documentation?) which is very console oriented... a no no for end users that want to edit their kids videos. The second is a link to the LiVES software... which is a better result, but you have to dig a bit to find the Ubuntu page.
The first two links get to some kind of bugs bugs har har... then you get an audio editing "distro"... which is a little overkill for our joe sixpack who just wants Audacity (although he does not know it;-).
What about,
ubuntu photo edit I get as first result spam about flicker, the second one is a Yahoo question pointing at the Gimp... good.
Overall, what we need is two things:
1. A standard web "link" that will guide browsers to *ask* the OS to install a specific application from the OS repositories (say, a link to look for some keywords like "GIMP" or "WINE" or whatever).
2. A "community service" by Yahoo and Google (at least, the two being Open Source friendly) where they equate such kind of search queries to links going straight to the open source "product". This could be implemented by say, Google providing "free" adwords to whatever Open Source software.
How else can you compete against "ACDSee" when people look for "photo edit download"?
Haha, another poster already disproved your claim but, it seems to me that it is YOU who does not really know how deb packages work and that the GP in fact knew what he was talking about.
Can you specifically mention what of these three claims the GP post made are bullshit: 1. You need to have the right dependencies (of a deb package) installed, with the specific version (I have even got some programs that are not happy with a *later* version of whatever library!) 2. If a library is in/foo/bar, and not in/bar/foo where your newly downloaded deb package looks for it, then you are screwed... that is, you *must* have libstdshit.so.3.1.4 and not libstdshit.so.3.2, otherwise you *must* do a ln to the needed library, tell that to the average user... (and how do you do a ln soft or hard without the command line?) 3. That deb packages containing the source code for applications (and some packages that for some strange reason need the dev packages) need to find all the GNU C tools and friends.
That specific console line instruction was the start of countless rpm-hell hunting nights during my University degrees.
Even today, there is a higher probability that you will successfully install any random.exe program downloaded from the internet in a random Windows operating system, than the probability of installing a random.rpm downloaded from the internet in a *rpm compatible* Linux distribution.
. If you don't have a repository for that package and you've downloaded
And, by the time you talk to end users about repositories, you have completely lost them. For them it means two things, one, that whatever distro they have cannot run their app, or second, that it is too difficult and unfriendly.
Mexico tried the whole "even or odd" license plate thing a while back (for similar reasons) and it was an epic failure.
Uuuh, as far as I know (asking to my relatives living in Mexico D.F.) the "hoy no circula" program is still going on strong in Mexico City, moreover, the program has just been extended for Saturdays (since July 5).
Saying that it didn't work is a big claim. Granted, some people bought another car, however that is not very common, given the general population does not earn enough money to buy a second car.
And moreover, the IMECA (Metropolitan Index of the Quality of Air, used to monitor the pollution in Mexico City) or AIQ (nowadays between 50 and 70) is not as high as it used to be say, 10 years ago when it usually was between 80 and 110...
You can check it from yourself, all the yearly data for Mexico City atmospheric conditions can be obtained from here.
"Tibet should be free"... Not too long ago, a Chinese friend of mine doing his PhD in the UK told me that all the noise and stuff made for the "Free Tibet" movement was naÃve, and that it could be compared to the "movement" to "free" Scotland from the English yoke...
Of course news agencies make a mountain out of a molehill [ahogarse en un vaso de agua?], the more it helps to sell, the better.
then why dont they just sign onto the kyoto protocol at the same level that other developed (read the united states) countries are supposed to.
Half truths... half truths
The United States (U.S.), although a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol, has neither ratified nor withdrawn from the Protocol. The signature alone is symbolic, as the Kyoto Protocol is non-binding on the United States unless ratified.
China is the single largest user of coal power and also the single dirtiest and most unsafe user as well.
The United States was, as of at least 2005 (and, according to various reports, to date), the largest single emitter of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.
Thus ensuring that I will never buy one for my desktop. The only thing allowed to be missing its number pad is a laptop keyboard, and even then I'm still angry.
It is just a matter of custom. I learnt to touchtype in Secondary School (3 years before high school, in Mexico) with the old mechanical type-the-letter-you-the-darn-key typewriting machines, and I find it very easy to type numbers using only the 1 - 9 row (and the . down there).
Although I never got to use the nipple mouse, I always thought it was a nice idea. Specially in these eras where notebook designers are trying to decrease the size of notebooks. The touchpad always increases the size of the "input panel" almost 40% of what it could be.
I think something similar to the nipple mouse but with some improvements would be a good deal.
For example, what about putting the nipple mouse between two space bars so that you can caress it with your thumbs? while your hands are in the standard writing position.
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Because Heath Ledger deserves one.
This is not a troll, but a legitimate question. I have only seen the trailers of the new Batman movie. I have read in a lot of places that the joker character is is very good.
However, from what I have seen on the trailer, the joker does not seems crazy like the one impersonated by Jack Nickolson. Thus my question to the people that have seen the movie would be, Is the Joker character by Ledger better than the one by Nickolson?
And to the compic purists (I am not one of them...) which of the two characterisations is closer to the one in the comics?
So, more than anything it means a USA company trying to outdo competition in other countries using typical USA strategies (i.e., don't-worry sue-happy!).
Sheesh, it's not like the pirates are actually losing money over this.
But the fact is that their work (the executable they release) is still under their copyright, and while they might have not been breaking any law when creating and originally distributing such software (i.e., it may be the case that in Norway, Sweeden, Brazil, Chile or any other country it is not criminalized to reverse engineer a program and show the resulting code in itself), Ubisoft might very well be infringing the copyright of redistributing the code or even a "derivative work" of it without the express permission of the authors FOR PROFIT (i.e., not for personal use).
I must extend an apology for the aforementioned flamebait.
I was over caffeinated... and in some way the GP affected me, because I used to crack programs protections (that is, disassemble, debug, and whatnot break the "security") just for entertainment when I was back in the University.
But I still think the point I was trying to make holds. When I was doing that reverse engineering, it was not a crime in the country I was living (Mexico). I do not know if it is one now, but I doubt it.
Pirates who complain about people stealing their work are also hypocrites.
Have you stopped to think that the guys who make the NO-CD crack do not give a shit about the game they are cracking? And that, if you had by any chance downloaded any of those cracks (not that you had, because we all know Cheesey is a god muthafucka lamb of God), you would have known that some of them even state clearly in the.NFO file that IF YOU LIKE THE GOD DAMN GAME THEN GO TO BUY IT.
Now, in your beautiful USA country it may be a crime to reverse engineer software for any purpose. But there are plenty of other countries (yes! there are other countries besides your loved America) where this is not the case.
As such, anyone can reverse engineer the software, publish said programs, subject to THEIR copyright without infringing ANY law.
Shit, stupid people make my so mad... but you really deserved this flamebait.
One of the first things I do when I buy a game is download the CD crack so I don't have to keep track of where the install disks are.
Not only that, I always apply a NO-cd crack to the games I buy after installing them in my notebook. I like playing games without having to carry a 20 CD wherever I happen to travel
. I'd still find it more than a little funny if every time you locked your keys in the car, you had to call up a car thief to open it for you. How's that for a car analogy?:)</i>
Quite close, but it is even worse. In this case it is not YOU would have called the car thief. In this case you would have gone to "Ford" or wherever you bought your car, and the people at the "Ford authorized service" had to call the thief to open your car...
har har... I can just say that what Ubisoft did is amazing
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Since when is 25 old? I just turned 25 and have yet to tell kids to "Get off my lawn",
Dude, you actually played Atari... and you enjoyed it. You are ooooold.
(I know I am too! I loved seaquest and warlords :P)
For what is worth, is it possible to format an SD or USB thumb drive in any way using the GUI?? I could not find how to do such a thing in Ubuntu (Gnome), Fedora or KDE, the last time I tried (about a month ago), so I had to reboot to windows to do it with a simple right-click format.
know that any x.0 release, of anything, will be buggy, unstable, and generally not for production use. x.0 means "it runs more than it crashes; but don't expect any sort of solid stability, to get any work done, or for anything to be exactly the same in the x.1 release"
Is that the standard for Open Source projects? if that is, then it is sad. Usually a x.0 release starts with 1.0, marking the first feature complete, tested and QA-ed and out of alpha and beta test software.
Version minor version revisions were usually caused by minor modifications (i.e., minor feature enhancements). Whereas mayor versions implied a major rewrite, major feature additions or whatnot.
I think what they should have done to name what they released as KDE 4.0 something like Klibs 4. In order to make very clear that what they were releasing was just the underlying stuff.
Maybe they could have even released the K Desktop Envionment 4 as a "public Alpha".
That way media and people would not be confused about WTF to expect from "KDE 4"
hey! you forgot the most important
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mod_clippy
I never click on embedded ads (the 3 or 4 times I did, it was on accident.) But I'm glad there are others out there who do hit them so all these free, web-based services continue to operate
Someone else wrote here on slashdot a very insightful comment concerning ads. A good ad does not need to be clicked. Compare an internet ad to say, a magazine, TV or (sadly) cinema ad. Those kinds of ads are engineered not to make you take an action at the moment you watch the ad, but just to remember the brand and certain specific snippets of information.
The problem with web ads is that the people designing the ads are approaching them in the wrong way, that is, they are designing ads with the objective of attracting people to a webpage. But a lot of time, once you are on that webpage you realize you really do not want anything from it (say, you click trying to kill the stupid flash bunny... after that you just close whatever window was opened).
There are a small number of web ads that do get the point somehow. I could see them while playing at Yahoo Games. There, you can see ads from McDonalds, Pepsi, Orange Mobile, etc. But those ads does not care if you click or not. They care that you *remember* that McDonalds is there, if you happen to be hungry. Similarly to what the ads in other media try to achieve.
I take that you didn't like 24 uh?
BTW, you can look at bugmenot.com for a username and password to avoid having to register.
I haven't read anyone state the obvious... at least for me.
My first contact with a computer was, fortunately, my first contact with a programming language. That is, LOGO.
I would strongly suggest you give a look at Starlogo TNG.
StarLogo TNG is real graphical programming in that you create programs by stacking boxes together (each box representing a different instruction like, if, then, while, etc). And the result is a 3D Turtle (yup, our beloved Logo turtle) moving in a 3D environment, which can also be modified.
Regards.
I feel ya on the garbage man/janitor aspect of IT, EVERYONE seems to think IT exists just to clean their big stinking piles of maneur, even after they spread that shit everywhere. I hate it... but I'm beginning to think I've just worked in shitty places. (Which is why I am about to move to a different company).
Do not just move to another company, focus on a different type of I.T. capabilities. If what you are doing feels just like techno-plumbing, it is because companies think you only can do that well.
You should consider studying further (a Master or whanot) and going for a "real" application of computing.
That was pretty much my choice. I graduated from a Soft. Engineering career. And there, you are taught to develop/maintain software just for the sake of it. The problem is that if you do not know how ot apply your knowledge to different fields (biology, finance, physics, etc) then you will be stuck just being the hyper-technician.
There is a *lot* of demand for people with Comp. Sci. skills which can apply them to specific fields (think of, simulations, financial analysis, etc). Or more generally, people that can bridge the gap between the use of computing technolgy and the other sciences.
From where? How do you find it? How do you know it's safe? How do you upgrade it later?
The answer to that is to google it.
After reading your post I made the experiment with some generic terms in google.
First,
download linux video edit
The first result I get is an outdated Wiki (why do I hate wikis that try to pass as documentation?) which is very console oriented... a no no for end users that want to edit their kids videos. The second is a link to the LiVES software... which is a better result, but you have to dig a bit to find the Ubuntu page.
What about...
download ubuntu audio edit
The first two links get to some kind of bugs bugs har har... then you get an audio editing "distro"... which is a little overkill for our joe sixpack who just wants Audacity (although he does not know it ;-).
What about,
ubuntu photo edit
I get as first result spam about flicker, the second one is a Yahoo question pointing at the Gimp... good.
Overall, what we need is two things:
1. A standard web "link" that will guide browsers to *ask* the OS to install a specific application from the OS repositories (say, a link to look for some keywords like "GIMP" or "WINE" or whatever).
2. A "community service" by Yahoo and Google (at least, the two being Open Source friendly) where they equate such kind of search queries to links going straight to the open source "product". This could be implemented by say, Google providing "free" adwords to whatever Open Source software.
How else can you compete against "ACDSee" when people look for "photo edit download"?
Haha, another poster already disproved your claim but, it seems to me that it is YOU who does not really know how deb packages work and that the GP in fact knew what he was talking about.
Can you specifically mention what of these three claims the GP post made are bullshit: /foo/bar, and not in /bar/foo where your newly downloaded deb package looks for it, then you are screwed... that is, you *must* have libstdshit.so.3.1.4 and not libstdshit.so.3.2, otherwise you *must* do a ln to the needed library, tell that to the average user... (and how do you do a ln soft or hard without the command line?)
1. You need to have the right dependencies (of a deb package) installed, with the specific version (I have even got some programs that are not happy with a *later* version of whatever library!)
2. If a library is in
3. That deb packages containing the source code for applications (and some packages that for some strange reason need the dev packages) need to find all the GNU C tools and friends.
installing is as eay as typing "rpm -i xyz.rpm"
Oh. My. God.
That specific console line instruction was the start of countless rpm-hell hunting nights during my University degrees.
Even today, there is a higher probability that you will successfully install any random .exe program downloaded from the internet in a random Windows operating system, than the probability of installing a random .rpm downloaded from the internet in a *rpm compatible* Linux distribution.
. If you don't have a repository for that package and you've downloaded
And, by the time you talk to end users about repositories, you have completely lost them. For them it means two things, one, that whatever distro they have cannot run their app, or second, that it is too difficult and unfriendly.
Mexico tried the whole "even or odd" license plate thing a while back (for similar reasons) and it was an epic failure.
Uuuh, as far as I know (asking to my relatives living in Mexico D.F.) the "hoy no circula" program is still going on strong in Mexico City, moreover, the program has just been extended for Saturdays (since July 5).
Saying that it didn't work is a big claim. Granted, some people bought another car, however that is not very common, given the general population does not earn enough money to buy a second car.
And moreover, the IMECA (Metropolitan Index of the Quality of Air, used to monitor the pollution in Mexico City) or AIQ (nowadays between 50 and 70) is not as high as it used to be say, 10 years ago when it usually was between 80 and 110...
You can check it from yourself, all the yearly data for Mexico City atmospheric conditions can be obtained from here.
"Tibet should be free"...
Not too long ago, a Chinese friend of mine doing his PhD in the UK told me that all the noise and stuff made for the "Free Tibet" movement was naÃve, and that it could be compared to the "movement" to "free" Scotland from the English yoke...
Of course news agencies make a mountain out of a molehill [ahogarse en un vaso de agua?], the more it helps to sell, the better.
then why dont they just sign onto the kyoto protocol at the same level that other developed (read the united states) countries are supposed to.
Half truths... half truths
The United States (U.S.), although a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol, has neither ratified nor withdrawn from the Protocol. The signature alone is symbolic, as the Kyoto Protocol is non-binding on the United States unless ratified.
China is the single largest user of coal power and also the single dirtiest and most unsafe user as well.
The United States was, as of at least 2005 (and, according to various reports, to date), the largest single emitter of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.
For more, anti kool-aid see:
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Thus ensuring that I will never buy one for my desktop. The only thing allowed to be missing its number pad is a laptop keyboard, and even then I'm still angry.
It is just a matter of custom. I learnt to touchtype in Secondary School (3 years before high school, in Mexico) with the old mechanical type-the-letter-you-the-darn-key typewriting machines, and I find it very easy to type numbers using only the 1 - 9 row (and the . down there).
Although I never got to use the nipple mouse, I always thought it was a nice idea. Specially in these eras where notebook designers are trying to decrease the size of notebooks. The touchpad always increases the size of the "input panel" almost 40% of what it could be.
I think something similar to the nipple mouse but with some improvements would be a good deal.
For example, what about putting the nipple mouse between two space bars so that you can caress it with your thumbs? while your hands are in the standard writing position.
Because Heath Ledger deserves one.
This is not a troll, but a legitimate question. I have only seen the trailers of the new Batman movie. I have read in a lot of places that the joker character is is very good.
However, from what I have seen on the trailer, the joker does not seems crazy like the one impersonated by Jack Nickolson. Thus my question to the people that have seen the movie would be, Is the Joker character by Ledger better than the one by Nickolson?
And to the compic purists (I am not one of them...) which of the two characterisations is closer to the one in the comics?
Wow,
Now that is a story. I had no idea about the origins of FaceBook... according to that story the founder of Facebook is a total asshole.
So, more than anything it means a USA company trying to outdo competition in other countries using typical USA strategies (i.e., don't-worry sue-happy!).
Sheesh, it's not like the pirates are actually losing money over this.
But the fact is that their work (the executable they release) is still under their copyright, and while they might have not been breaking any law when creating and originally distributing such software (i.e., it may be the case that in Norway, Sweeden, Brazil, Chile or any other country it is not criminalized to reverse engineer a program and show the resulting code in itself), Ubisoft might very well be infringing the copyright of redistributing the code or even a "derivative work" of it without the express permission of the authors FOR PROFIT (i.e., not for personal use).
wow...
I must extend an apology for the aforementioned flamebait.
I was over caffeinated... and in some way the GP affected me, because I used to crack programs protections (that is, disassemble, debug, and whatnot break the "security") just for entertainment when I was back in the University.
But I still think the point I was trying to make holds. When I was doing that reverse engineering, it was not a crime in the country I was living (Mexico). I do not know if it is one now, but I doubt it.
Pirates who complain about people stealing their work are also hypocrites.
Have you stopped to think that the guys who make the NO-CD crack do not give a shit about the game they are cracking? And that, if you had by any chance downloaded any of those cracks (not that you had, because we all know Cheesey is a god muthafucka lamb of God), you would have known that some of them even state clearly in the .NFO file that IF YOU LIKE THE GOD DAMN GAME THEN GO TO BUY IT.
Now, in your beautiful USA country it may be a crime to reverse engineer software for any purpose. But there are plenty of other countries (yes! there are other countries besides your loved America) where this is not the case.
As such, anyone can reverse engineer the software, publish said programs, subject to THEIR copyright without infringing ANY law.
Shit, stupid people make my so mad...
but you really deserved this flamebait.
One of the first things I do when I buy a game is download the CD crack so I don't have to keep track of where the install disks are.
Not only that, I always apply a NO-cd crack to the games I buy after installing them in my notebook. I like playing games without having to carry a 20 CD wherever I happen to travel
. I'd still find it more than a little funny if every time you locked your keys in the car, you had to call up a car thief to open it for you. How's that for a car analogy? :)</i>
Quite close, but it is even worse. In this case it is not YOU would have called the car thief. In this case you would have gone to "Ford" or wherever you bought your car, and the people at the "Ford authorized service" had to call the thief to open your car...
har har... I can just say that what Ubisoft did is amazing