Agreed, and when such company starts to bundle Linux it wont be any of the 100 distros but the 101 that *they* will create based on one of the 100.
Seriously, the only way a company will provide Linux on its desktops will be if there is a company like Redhat or Linspire backing it. I would really go for Linspire or Xandros, but it will really be a difficult time when the Luser that bought the computer buys his Logitech quickcam for notebooks deluxe and finds that it just does not work after connecting it and that she cant even use it to video-chat with his pals on Messenger or Skype.
And I imagine the face of such people after they called to the client service and the guy over the phone tells them "Yes ma'am, the problem is not with the Machine, the problem is of Skype"..."Yes ma'am I know your friends can do it with their HPs but...", "No maam no need to be rude, what you have to do is use Ekiga or XXX[insert Linux video chatting software name] to video-chat"... "MMMmmno maam, you will have to tell your friends to use the same program too...okay maam?, ma'am, hello?"
I think that is a really BIG problem with the people discussing Linux. What? the fact that people discuss things like UI, ease of use, installation, etc of Linux, and they compare it to any other operating system.
If we were to make the comparison exact, then the Linux UI sucks for the end user (wait! dont mod me down yet!), because an end user would not know what to do with skb_queue_empty , kfree_skb, skb_shared, skb_unshare or any of the other functions provided by the Linux interface. Do you see where I am going?
Linux is not something you can compare with other OSes, it is not something for which you can say "installation sucks" (surprise, you have *never* made a barebones Linux installation... excepting LSF fans). What people (linux fans and freaks) should discuss are the specific distributions! That will end a lot of problems...
When you say "Linux is difficult to install", I can say Of course not, in Knoppix I just turn on the computer, insert the CD and it is running! of course you might be referring to Gentoo. Then someone else says "Linux does not support my XXYY hardware" and someone else will say "Bullshit, I use Linspire and it supports everything out of the box".
That is one of the main problems. When I talk about Linux based operating systems I talk about Ubuntu, Mandrive or Novel. When I tell my father to try a different OS I tell him to try Ubuntu OS. And if he even asks I tell him that it has its background on UNIX.
That is what is good with FreeBSD for example. When you talk about FreeBSD you are talking about one specific bundle.
Saying "Linux does not support my BCM8100 out of the box" is like saying "Windows does not support my BCM8100" out of the box referring to Windows 3.1!
Amen to that. I am also a scientist (although I do like developing) and I happen to be doing some simulations (using some Java simulator framework) which generate lots of data. I find that there is nothing in Windows that can get near AWK and Bash for the data preprocessing. I could use Cygwin but I have never really liked it (why have the half assed patch if you can have the complete solution?).
Of course I use Windows at home as I use skype (with video) to call my girlfriend and my relatives back in Mexico (Im in UK). Oh and to play StepMania and other games properly.
MMmmmhhh, I might give it a try to this game, after all I bought it after getting the Wii (because my girlfriend likes playing Zelda games) but after watching her playing a bit, it seemed a bit boring. Catch some fish in order to attract the cat in order to take the cat to the grandma in order to get a token you take to grandpa in order to get some info on how to get the sword. And of course you can not do anything else unless you have done that...
Dont get me wrong, I loved the LOZ- A Link to the Past (SNES) and LOZ- Link's Awakening (GB) when I was a kid. And currently I love games like Morrowind and NeverWinter Nights but this Zelda games (the two or three I have seen in the last consoles) suffer from the problem of being linear. They are supposed to be a bit "role playing" but are very linear. Maybe it is because they are "Adventure" genre and they do not have the elements of Role playing (develop your character).
But well.. there are not too many games for Wii and somehow this game has one of the best ratings everywhere =o)
Nah... at the end he ended being a total jerk, they divorced and the motherfucker wont even sign in some papers to let the guys go to Mexico, something that they really like because they like to see their grandmother, their uncles (me =oP) and they love Mexico's beaches.
They should hurry up... I've got 2178 in Tennis and both the girl and guy that always play against me does not get over 2000 (1900 and 2000 only)... and I get bored playing against them:(
They bought it for dimes after trapping the Mexican president Santa Anna and threatening to kill him. Of course the president was a coward for giving them all of that. But of course Texas did not want to be part of Mexico anyway. Look at the Wikipedia article on Texas Revolution.
And about the Mexican illegal workers. It is difficult to find whom to blame. The farmers *need* cheap labour workers in order to be able to keep the prices of their products down, this to be able to compete with other farmers and foreign products. Then, the ones who would refuse to buy the "not-the-lowest-price" product are the stores (intermediaries) like Wal*Mart and others. Of course they refuse to do this in order to decrease the price of the product to have the cheapest price. Which is the price that the *consumers* (this is, you and me) look after (so, why pay $20 for a book at your local book store if you can pay $10 at Amazon?
The only solution I see is, as other has put it, some kind of protectionism on the price of several things. The government would need to interfere in order to stablish the minimum price of certain goods (funny how that is the inverse of what happens in countries like Mexico, where the government intervene to state the Maximum price).
Really, there is people that dedicate their lives and studies to this. Do not try to solve it with a 10 minutes slashdot brainstorm
Just as a side comment. In Mexico, some Chinese import products (I am almost sure they are all but cant find a source) have a tax of 500%. I know this because my mother tried to buy a blanket from the Wildlife catalogue some time ago but the nice people over there told her they stopped the shipment due to the incredible amount of tax (not that it is wrong but you *must* protect your own workers and products).
Of course, that is why you see millions of Chinese products illegally introduced to Mexico... and that just produces a black market...
You surely are American. As you believe, your country is the best in the world and your people is the best in the world and all that shit.
I have not seen any more hard working people than Indians (or other people from the middle east). They are very stubborn and they would work 12 or 13 hours a day (if not more) for more than 30 years in order to get some money. I am not Indian, I am Mexican. And I have a cousin who married an American and they are living in the USA now. One of the things she told me is that she was impressed how lazy Americans are, she told me some stories about theirs children school and other.
Of course Americans work harder than say, Britons. I live in Britain now and OMG they ARE lazy. I would *love* to work here because they just dont work =o).
But you should also see how Latin Americans break their asses. As with lots of Americans (not everyone of course) you have a view of your country and your government has made you believe it is the best but you cant do better as you have never gone out of your little hole.
Britons have it the other way around, They are always whining about their government and country, but they do not know how good they live as some of them have also never go out.
Nice joke, although you couldnt have dont that unless the words you put had the same length than the words you where replacing. I know because I did something like that and from the way the text is saved in a.COM file (strings at the end of the file) you could hex-edit them but they where all concatenated and just separated by the \0 EOS character.
Well, I wont clarify my comment (you wont understand from what I have read from your other posts), but I will help you with your little volume problem.
See, In Ubuntu Linux (dont know if on other distros is the same) you can use more than one sound card without problems. Your problem seems to be that you have your Sound Blaster card AND your motherboard's integrated card. When you are turning up and down the volume in the tool tool bar (after clicking the small speaker icon) you are turning the volume of your integrated sound card. What you need to do is tell linux that you want to control the SB volume when you do that.
To do that you must right click on the little speaker icon and then select properties and then on the mixer screen, in the menu you can select which soundcard do you want to use.
They are game console systems, to play games. Yeah! you play games to have FUN, you go to the museum to be entertained and to get insight. I love museums, all of the types. I love art (hint: when you go to UK the museums are almost always Free [as in beer... but no, no free beer]!) and I love also street art (Have any of you heard about Gaudí?).
But when I am at home and turn on my game console is because I want to have FUN, to have fun with my friends, to have fun with my family and to have fun myself. It doesnt matter if I have to shoot ducks, balloons, or move like an idiot (just record yourself while playing the Wii =o)) or slap some bitches (GTA), I am just having FUN.
If I want to see art at my home I will go to my computer and browse for some art. And If you try to sell me the idea that some games are also art. Oh fucking well, there are games that are a form of art. But those are games that are transcendental, not any of those hundreds PS2 games that you played once and now you dont even remember you played.
Games like Pong, Arkanoid, Tetris, Lemmings (beautiful), Mario (1 and 3), Super Mario World, Duck hunt, Thousand Arms, Final Fantasy (from 1 to 5... maybe 7 which I never played but not from 8 to 20 or what is the last one?). And so long, some games that *really* marked a new trend on games... The Sims is another of them, but I would be *more* inclined to think Sim City IS the one to be considered art.
But if we visit the main definition of art: "Something is not considered 'art' when it stimulates only the senses, or only the mind, or when it has a different primary purpose than doing so." From the so used wikiedia
So yeah, all of those games whole purpose is to suck cash of we the innocent buyers, so you might state they are not really art.
Funny how often the US gets to bear the brunt of development costs while the rest of the world gets deep discounts. Ha! You should live in the UK a bit my friend. They are so used to get raped on the ass by the prices that they lost the repulsion long ago.
The added security seems to come with a high anoyance factor I have not tried Windows Vista, but for what I have read and saw, it seems to me the guys at Redmond chose the less-work way to add security. So, at the end they chose to leave security as a chose to the user (with the infamous accept or cancel hundreds of screens). I really hope this is what they only mean by improved security because it is exactly the same as it was in XP. Just with more questions to the users.
It seems to me that Microsoft made with Windows Vista what I did as a kid for my homework, they assign you a homework on Monday for the next Monday, and you do not do nothing until Sunday afternoon when you read about the assignment and realize you *need* more time to do some research on the subject (lets say that the homework was to ask several people what do they think about Coke) and you just try to write something that seems to be OK just to pass the mark.
But then again, looking back at the previous Windows releases, I remember when the Windows Millennium Edition was going to be released how it was supposed to have the NT kernel and to be more stable than anything else but oh fiasco, it was Win98 with a new desktop background. And then Win2000 came out for the servers without any further and after that WindowsXP which again was Win2000 with Internet Explorer and pretty themes.
Fucking hardware manufacturers PROVIDE LINUX DRIVERS!!!! we do not care if they are closed!
Take it easy on me pal. As I stated on the previous post I do not have anything against Turks. I was just expressing what I heard. Also, I know I sounded like a bigot when talking the way I did against Americans. For that I am sorry, I have some American friends that are very nice. But let me tell you a factual story which I heard on first person with my own ears:
When I met one of those good American friends (a girl from Ohio) we were in Amsterdam in the same Hostel, sometime after we met, her father called her on her mobile and after some time talking she said something like "oh come on dad, who can I befriend here? you know nobody likes Americans". That is she acknowledged that people do not like them.
I was a bit surprised to see that but then again not so much because see, all of the people from USA I have met is people who I met outside USA. And almost all of these people acknowledged in one way or another that Americans usually closed and they think they are the best and their country is heaven and that everybody sucks... again I am telling you the ideas that this people let me understand (and It was not just one, if you are interested, it was two in La Paz, BCS; one in Xalapa, Veracruz; one in Barcelona, Spain; two in Liverpool, UK; and those are all that I remember, all of them unrelated to one another).
I do not make any generalization because that will mean that all these friends are also whatever they said. But well, I can see a pattern when it emerges. Of course the sample is very tiny but statistically it has been something like the 90% of the Americans I have met.
Hmmm. Sorry/. crowd to be the "anti Linux" guy here but every major desktop oriented Linux distribution also assumes you are online all of the time. For example, the marvelous Synaptic (Apt) or Yum (rpm) or any other package manager *requires* a live internet connection in order to install any program. Of course you could go to the repositories and download such.deb or.rpm but then you would have to *try* to install it and then download the dependencies and try to install the dependencies and download the dependencies of the dependencies etc. Whereas with OSX o Microsucks you only have to download one installer file and thats all.
With several Linux distro's being easy to install and use, when WGA came out, I stopped MS upgrades and started moving to Linux. Love my Ubuntu box. Do not get me wrong, I hate WGA also and I really love APT (it made me migrate from Fedora to Ubuntu) but please do not spread FUD just because you do not like. I mean, really looking at what Microsoft does by itself there is really no need to spread this bullshit, and on the other hand, you look bad.
Well, I do not know what does Turkish do to piss everybody but, so far since I have arrived the UK almost everyone who speaks about Turks say the worst things about them.
For example, a Greek girl told me that they were racists and they were assholes that tried to invade certain Greek lands and that a lot of Turks try to emigrate to other places and do terrible things. Then, a cousin living in Spain also told me to beware of the Turks, he told me "I am no racist or anything but it seems that at least in Barcelona the only people that will assault and rob you are Turks". And then an American who lived in Egypt and other places also talked of Turks as shit (of course, well... she is American so... take it with a grain of salt).
I have nothing against them, from where I come from (Mexico) I had no preconception of them but wow It seems they should have done things very wrong to be seen how they are seen. Of course I cant put my hands in the fire for Mexicans as lots of Americans might see us like illegal aliens trying to take out your jobs (Although... as our so "loved" ex-president, Mexicans go to USA to do work that "not even blacks" like to do [with apologies to our fellow non-white friends]).
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It might seem stupid but maybe if you get one of those PDAs with a web browser you will have what you want =o). Of course you only need Opera and the Flash plugin.
I have not used pandora a lot.. I preferred to use Last.FM (I was a subscriber) until they removed that feature. I have used pandora a bit but I think they do not have too many of the music I like (speed, heavy and gothic metal).
Anyway, I might give it a try again.
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Anyway, I stopped used them because they gradually became more and more commercial. And although I see nothing bad on that, The service as it is now is not worth the price they ask.
Something which is not really "physics" but I found interesting is about Suppressors:
1. They are called Sound Suppressors not "silencers". They do not "silence" the sound just diminish it. 2. They do not really suppress the sound the way movies put it (I am looking at you Mr. Bauer).
Motion pictures have produced the common misconception that sound suppressors ("silencers") completely silence the weapon's sound, or reduce it to a quiet whistling sound, which is in most cases very far from the truth. In fact, the emergent noise can still be heard from a fairly large distance. The quiet whistling sound associated with silencers is more attributable to the noise made by air guns 3. (And the most interesting for me) They are good just for a small number of shots (Yeah, again looking at you Mr. Bauer)
Very effective suppressors either involve a large total suppressor volume, a moderately large volume plus many baffles, or wipes. It is possible to design a very small and compact suppressor with wipes which effectively silences a pistol; these suppressors have a lifetime of as few as 4-5 shots and typically no more than a few magazines of ammunition. Larger wipeless (baffle only) pistol or rifle suppressors may be nearly as effective for long lifetimes (hundreds or thousands of shots) but are relatively bulky, clumsy, and heavy.
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Darn the combination of the stupid GP and your answer made my day. Than you. If I had mod points I would have moded you up... even if you are AC.
Agreed, and when such company starts to bundle Linux it wont be any of the 100 distros but the 101 that *they* will create based on one of the 100.
Seriously, the only way a company will provide Linux on its desktops will be if there is a company like Redhat or Linspire backing it. I would really go for Linspire or Xandros, but it will really be a difficult time when the Luser that bought the computer buys his Logitech quickcam for notebooks deluxe and finds that it just does not work after connecting it and that she cant even use it to video-chat with his pals on Messenger or Skype.
And I imagine the face of such people after they called to the client service and the guy over the phone tells them "Yes ma'am, the problem is not with the Machine, the problem is of Skype"..."Yes ma'am I know your friends can do it with their HPs but...", "No maam no need to be rude, what you have to do is use Ekiga or XXX[insert Linux video chatting software name] to video-chat"... "MMMmmno maam, you will have to tell your friends to use the same program too...okay maam?, ma'am, hello?"
Because it is not Free? as in Beer and as in Libre?
I think that is a really BIG problem with the people discussing Linux. What? the fact that people discuss things like UI, ease of use, installation, etc of Linux, and they compare it to any other operating system.
If we were to make the comparison exact, then the Linux UI sucks for the end user (wait! dont mod me down yet!), because an end user would not know what to do with skb_queue_empty , kfree_skb, skb_shared, skb_unshare or any of the other functions provided by the Linux interface. Do you see where I am going?
Linux is not something you can compare with other OSes, it is not something for which you can say "installation sucks" (surprise, you have *never* made a barebones Linux installation... excepting LSF fans). What people (linux fans and freaks) should discuss are the specific distributions! That will end a lot of problems...
When you say "Linux is difficult to install", I can say Of course not, in Knoppix I just turn on the computer, insert the CD and it is running! of course you might be referring to Gentoo.
Then someone else says "Linux does not support my XXYY hardware" and someone else will say "Bullshit, I use Linspire and it supports everything out of the box".
That is one of the main problems. When I talk about Linux based operating systems I talk about Ubuntu, Mandrive or Novel. When I tell my father to try a different OS I tell him to try Ubuntu OS. And if he even asks I tell him that it has its background on UNIX.
That is what is good with FreeBSD for example. When you talk about FreeBSD you are talking about one specific bundle.
Saying "Linux does not support my BCM8100 out of the box" is like saying "Windows does not support my BCM8100" out of the box referring to Windows 3.1!
Amen to that. I am also a scientist (although I do like developing) and I happen to be doing some simulations (using some Java simulator framework) which generate lots of data. I find that there is nothing in Windows that can get near AWK and Bash for the data preprocessing. I could use Cygwin but I have never really liked it (why have the half assed patch if you can have the complete solution?).
Of course I use Windows at home as I use skype (with video) to call my girlfriend and my relatives back in Mexico (Im in UK). Oh and to play StepMania and other games properly.
MMmmmhhh, I might give it a try to this game, after all I bought it after getting the Wii (because my girlfriend likes playing Zelda games) but after watching her playing a bit, it seemed a bit boring. Catch some fish in order to attract the cat in order to take the cat to the grandma in order to get a token you take to grandpa in order to get some info on how to get the sword. And of course you can not do anything else unless you have done that...
Dont get me wrong, I loved the LOZ- A Link to the Past (SNES) and LOZ- Link's Awakening (GB) when I was a kid. And currently I love games like Morrowind and NeverWinter Nights but this Zelda games (the two or three I have seen in the last consoles) suffer from the problem of being linear. They are supposed to be a bit "role playing" but are very linear. Maybe it is because they are "Adventure" genre and they do not have the elements of Role playing (develop your character).
But well.. there are not too many games for Wii and somehow this game has one of the best ratings everywhere =o)
How was that hat?
Can you post the Youtube link please?
Nah... at the end he ended being a total jerk, they divorced and the motherfucker wont even sign in some papers to let the guys go to Mexico, something that they really like because they like to see their grandmother, their uncles (me =oP) and they love Mexico's beaches.
Oh come on mods!
This was funny... please buy a sense of humour...
They should hurry up... I've got 2178 in Tennis and both the girl and guy that always play against me does not get over 2000 (1900 and 2000 only)... and I get bored playing against them :(
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They bought it for dimes after trapping the Mexican president Santa Anna and threatening to kill him. Of course the president was a coward for giving them all of that. But of course Texas did not want to be part of Mexico anyway. Look at the Wikipedia article on Texas Revolution.
And about the Mexican illegal workers. It is difficult to find whom to blame. The farmers *need* cheap labour workers in order to be able to keep the prices of their products down, this to be able to compete with other farmers and foreign products. Then, the ones who would refuse to buy the "not-the-lowest-price" product are the stores (intermediaries) like Wal*Mart and others. Of course they refuse to do this in order to decrease the price of the product to have the cheapest price. Which is the price that the *consumers* (this is, you and me) look after (so, why pay $20 for a book at your local book store if you can pay $10 at Amazon?
The only solution I see is, as other has put it, some kind of protectionism on the price of several things. The government would need to interfere in order to stablish the minimum price of certain goods (funny how that is the inverse of what happens in countries like Mexico, where the government intervene to state the Maximum price).
Really, there is people that dedicate their lives and studies to this. Do not try to solve it with a 10 minutes slashdot brainstorm
Just as a side comment. In Mexico, some Chinese import products (I am almost sure they are all but cant find a source) have a tax of 500%. I know this because my mother tried to buy a blanket from the Wildlife catalogue some time ago but the nice people over there told her they stopped the shipment due to the incredible amount of tax (not that it is wrong but you *must* protect your own workers and products).
Of course, that is why you see millions of Chinese products illegally introduced to Mexico... and that just produces a black market...
You surely are American. As you believe, your country is the best in the world and your people is the best in the world and all that shit.
I have not seen any more hard working people than Indians (or other people from the middle east). They are very stubborn and they would work 12 or 13 hours a day (if not more) for more than 30 years in order to get some money. I am not Indian, I am Mexican. And I have a cousin who married an American and they are living in the USA now. One of the things she told me is that she was impressed how lazy Americans are, she told me some stories about theirs children school and other.
Of course Americans work harder than say, Britons. I live in Britain now and OMG they ARE lazy. I would *love* to work here because they just dont work =o).
But you should also see how Latin Americans break their asses. As with lots of Americans (not everyone of course) you have a view of your country and your government has made you believe it is the best but you cant do better as you have never gone out of your little hole.
Britons have it the other way around, They are always whining about their government and country, but they do not know how good they live as some of them have also never go out.
babies.
Unfortunately they are quite a bit outside my buying range. But their 10.5in screen seems quite nice and 7.5 hours seems also very good. Average Battery Life: 7.5 Hrs
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Nice joke, although you couldnt have dont that unless the words you put had the same length than the words you where replacing. I know because I did something like that and from the way the text is saved in a .COM file (strings at the end of the file) you could hex-edit them but they where all concatenated and just separated by the \0 EOS character.
Nice joke anyway =o)
Well, I wont clarify my comment (you wont understand from what I have read from your other posts), but I will help you with your little volume problem.
See, In Ubuntu Linux (dont know if on other distros is the same) you can use more than one sound card without problems. Your problem seems to be that you have your Sound Blaster card AND your motherboard's integrated card. When you are turning up and down the volume in the tool tool bar (after clicking the small speaker icon) you are turning the volume of your integrated sound card. What you need to do is tell linux that you want to control the SB volume when you do that.
To do that you must right click on the little speaker icon and then select properties and then on the mixer screen, in the menu you can select which soundcard do you want to use.
HTH.
Really, read the subject.
They are game console systems, to play games. Yeah! you play games to have FUN, you go to the museum to be entertained and to get insight. I love museums, all of the types. I love art (hint: when you go to UK the museums are almost always Free [as in beer... but no, no free beer]!) and I love also street art (Have any of you heard about Gaudí?).
But when I am at home and turn on my game console is because I want to have FUN, to have fun with my friends, to have fun with my family and to have fun myself. It doesnt matter if I have to shoot ducks, balloons, or move like an idiot (just record yourself while playing the Wii =o)) or slap some bitches (GTA), I am just having FUN.
If I want to see art at my home I will go to my computer and browse for some art. And If you try to sell me the idea that some games are also art. Oh fucking well, there are games that are a form of art. But those are games that are transcendental, not any of those hundreds PS2 games that you played once and now you dont even remember you played.
Games like Pong, Arkanoid, Tetris, Lemmings (beautiful), Mario (1 and 3), Super Mario World, Duck hunt, Thousand Arms, Final Fantasy (from 1 to 5... maybe 7 which I never played but not from 8 to 20 or what is the last one?). And so long, some games that *really* marked a new trend on games... The Sims is another of them, but I would be *more* inclined to think Sim City IS the one to be considered art.
But if we visit the main definition of art:
"Something is not considered 'art' when it stimulates only the senses, or only the mind, or when it has a different primary purpose than doing so." From the so used wikiedia
So yeah, all of those games whole purpose is to suck cash of we the innocent buyers, so you might state they are not really art.
Funny how often the US gets to bear the brunt of development costs while the rest of the world gets deep discounts.
Ha! You should live in the UK a bit my friend. They are so used to get raped on the ass by the prices that they lost the repulsion long ago.
The added security seems to come with a high anoyance factor
I have not tried Windows Vista, but for what I have read and saw, it seems to me the guys at Redmond chose the less-work way to add security. So, at the end they chose to leave security as a chose to the user (with the infamous accept or cancel hundreds of screens). I really hope this is what they only mean by improved security because it is exactly the same as it was in XP. Just with more questions to the users.
It seems to me that Microsoft made with Windows Vista what I did as a kid for my homework, they assign you a homework on Monday for the next Monday, and you do not do nothing until Sunday afternoon when you read about the assignment and realize you *need* more time to do some research on the subject (lets say that the homework was to ask several people what do they think about Coke) and you just try to write something that seems to be OK just to pass the mark.
But then again, looking back at the previous Windows releases, I remember when the Windows Millennium Edition was going to be released how it was supposed to have the NT kernel and to be more stable than anything else but oh fiasco, it was Win98 with a new desktop background. And then Win2000 came out for the servers without any further and after that WindowsXP which again was Win2000 with Internet Explorer and pretty themes.
Fucking hardware manufacturers PROVIDE LINUX DRIVERS!!!! we do not care if they are closed!
Take it easy on me pal. As I stated on the previous post I do not have anything against Turks. I was just expressing what I heard. Also, I know I sounded like a bigot when talking the way I did against Americans. For that I am sorry, I have some American friends that are very nice. But let me tell you a factual story which I heard on first person with my own ears:
When I met one of those good American friends (a girl from Ohio) we were in Amsterdam in the same Hostel, sometime after we met, her father called her on her mobile and after some time talking she said something like "oh come on dad, who can I befriend here? you know nobody likes Americans". That is she acknowledged that people do not like them.
I was a bit surprised to see that but then again not so much because see, all of the people from USA I have met is people who I met outside USA. And almost all of these people acknowledged in one way or another that Americans usually closed and they think they are the best and their country is heaven and that everybody sucks... again I am telling you the ideas that this people let me understand (and It was not just one, if you are interested, it was two in La Paz, BCS; one in Xalapa, Veracruz; one in Barcelona, Spain; two in Liverpool, UK; and those are all that I remember, all of them unrelated to one another).
I do not make any generalization because that will mean that all these friends are also whatever they said. But well, I can see a pattern when it emerges. Of course the sample is very tiny but statistically it has been something like the 90% of the Americans I have met.
MS assumes everyone is online.
/. crowd to be the "anti Linux" guy here but every major desktop oriented Linux distribution also assumes you are online all of the time. For example, the marvelous Synaptic (Apt) or Yum (rpm) or any other package manager *requires* a live internet connection in order to install any program. Of course you could go to the repositories and download such .deb or .rpm but then you would have to *try* to install it and then download the dependencies and try to install the dependencies and download the dependencies of the dependencies etc.
Hmmm. Sorry
Whereas with OSX o Microsucks you only have to download one installer file and thats all.
With several Linux distro's being easy to install and use, when WGA came out, I stopped MS upgrades and started moving to Linux. Love my Ubuntu box.
Do not get me wrong, I hate WGA also and I really love APT (it made me migrate from Fedora to Ubuntu) but please do not spread FUD just because you do not like. I mean, really looking at what Microsoft does by itself there is really no need to spread this bullshit, and on the other hand, you look bad.
Well, I do not know what does Turkish do to piss everybody but, so far since I have arrived the UK almost everyone who speaks about Turks say the worst things about them.
For example, a Greek girl told me that they were racists and they were assholes that tried to invade certain Greek lands and that a lot of Turks try to emigrate to other places and do terrible things. Then, a cousin living in Spain also told me to beware of the Turks, he told me "I am no racist or anything but it seems that at least in Barcelona the only people that will assault and rob you are Turks". And then an American who lived in Egypt and other places also talked of Turks as shit (of course, well... she is American so... take it with a grain of salt).
I have nothing against them, from where I come from (Mexico) I had no preconception of them but wow It seems they should have done things very wrong to be seen how they are seen. Of course I cant put my hands in the fire for Mexicans as lots of Americans might see us like illegal aliens trying to take out your jobs (Although... as our so "loved" ex-president, Mexicans go to USA to do work that "not even blacks" like to do [with apologies to our fellow non-white friends]).
It might seem stupid but maybe if you get one of those PDAs with a web browser you will have what you want =o). Of course you only need Opera and the Flash plugin.
I have not used pandora a lot.. I preferred to use Last.FM (I was a subscriber) until they removed that feature. I have used pandora a bit but I think they do not have too many of the music I like (speed, heavy and gothic metal).
Anyway, I might give it a try again.
Er, nothing like audioscrobbler/last.fm then?
No, I think it is more on the lines of Pandora . But from TFA seems you would be able to download music (dont know what internet do they use where that is legal). Now of course Last.FM is kind of OK, or at least it was until the last player update which disabled the only differential thing (at least from the other zillion projects that suggest you music) which was the ability to choose two or more artists and create a radio station out of them. According to the people at last.FM it was because some record company did not liked that feature. But it seems they are going to enable it for subscribers only. And as other people said in their forums, nothing stopped them from streaming and displaying all the artists minus the ones from such stupid record company.
Anyway, I stopped used them because they gradually became more and more commercial. And although I see nothing bad on that, The service as it is now is not worth the price they ask.
1. They are called Sound Suppressors not "silencers". They do not "silence" the sound just diminish it.
2. They do not really suppress the sound the way movies put it (I am looking at you Mr. Bauer). Motion pictures have produced the common misconception that sound suppressors ("silencers") completely silence the weapon's sound, or reduce it to a quiet whistling sound, which is in most cases very far from the truth. In fact, the emergent noise can still be heard from a fairly large distance. The quiet whistling sound associated with silencers is more attributable to the noise made by air guns 3. (And the most interesting for me) They are good just for a small number of shots (Yeah, again looking at you Mr. Bauer) Very effective suppressors either involve a large total suppressor volume, a moderately large volume plus many baffles, or wipes. It is possible to design a very small and compact suppressor with wipes which effectively silences a pistol; these suppressors have a lifetime of as few as 4-5 shots and typically no more than a few magazines of ammunition. Larger wipeless (baffle only) pistol or rifle suppressors may be nearly as effective for long lifetimes (hundreds or thousands of shots) but are relatively bulky, clumsy, and heavy.