While I generally applaud your intellectual smackdown, I must disagree with this: Democracy itself is founded on the basis of a middle class. Democracy has always been founding on an educated and wealthy elite. The so-called middle class (in the USA) came much later, and made universal democracy possible (which I think is your point). This is part of the problem with a policy of "bringing democracy to the world." It took the US over 150 years to open the democracy up to all citizens (and there are some that argue that we need to allow ex-convicts to vote anywhere in the country, too).
But yeah, a middle class facilitates a universal democracy.
Hmm... I wonder what software you're using to burn CDs? The stuff that comes with Ubuntu 6.06 LTS runs under your user account (nautilus's integrated CD burner, serpentine audio CD creator, rhythmbox's music export) without any sudo requirement.
As a.NET hobbyist, I'd think you'd be interested in getting involved in Mono?
#3 is probably accurate. Somewhere in the switch from the 2.2 kernel to the 2.4 kernel, changes in the VM manager really killed interactive performance under load (IMHO).
#4 isn't fair because you can't compare "Windows" and "Linux". It's true that Ubuntu has a way to go on this front (mostly because they don't run network-manager by default), but other distros have done a better job. Also, with Windows, you need to make sure you've got a driver disk available. With Linux, it generally either works out of the box, or it doesn't have drivers (ndiswrapper notwithstanding).
#5 is a matter of opinion, but windows lacks a lot of basic desktop features that are built into GNOME/Ubuntu by default. At the same time, there are a lot more companies providing commercial software for windows as well as shareware/adware vendors providing "1.0" level software, so I'm willing to concede the point.
As for the in unbulleted #6, I dunno what happened in your case, but I watch tons of videos at all sorts of high resolutions on circa 2001 thinkpads without any trouble.
My sister and fiance have both been using Ubuntu as their only OS for about a year and a half now. Neither of them are computer geeks, though I do tech support for them (which was also true when they were using Windows, too). I'll concede that if you don't have some friends that use it (and you don't care to get involved with the online communuties, any Linux distro probably won't cut it.
Since when does being "religious" mean you have to be Christian? Or that being a religious Christian mean that you have to disbelieve in evolution and prevent it being taught in schools? If you think its wrong, get involved in some cutting edge research and prove it wrong. I promise you, if you develop a novel, testable conceptual framework that better explains and predicts the phenomena we experience, it'll gain acceptance.
There are many religious scientists. There are even many religious Christian scientists (even Christian Scientists, but that's something different;-)). There are also atheist and even anti-religious scientists. The bigotry inherent in your defensive complaints belies your prejudice and bias. Keep your religion in your church and out of the communities schools.
You're free to teach your kid anything you like, even take them out of classes, if you wish. Just don't try and deny everyone else their right to learn the latest science.
The reason your analogy is laughable is that nobody's proposing that today's science books are the word of God. They're just condensations of the current knowledge related to a certain field.
We know that science is fallible. Indeed, that's what makes it science. In 2000 years, the science books will be updated to reflect new understanding about the world based on evidence and tests of hypotheses. Nobody's editing the bible to keep up with the world.
The Sahara is in the tropics, but that land is not particularly productive.
Arable land is most productive when the climate is predictable (consider the capital outlay costs involved in farming, now consider having to move that farm because the local climate became drier and some remote climate became wetter and warmer). Climate change coming from more energy in the atmosphere increases unpredictability (though you'll probably not accept that assertion).
Humans are clever, and I'm sure we'll be able to work around climate change (particularly food production and distribution), but the nagging question is this: how many people will die in the meantime?
Ever buy a PC or CPU with the latest and greatest AMD or Intel (or PPC...) chip in it? Same principle applies. Intel and AMD make their money off of their high end model. The cost of producing the first chip is actually much lower than the price. In order to pay for the capital outlay for manufacturing and the design work, prices for the high end chips are much higher than the chips that are slightly older and slower.
OLPC is non-profit, so they aren't selling the OLPC this way, but they have similar needs. In this case, they're just being completely open about how and why they need to charge a price well above the direct cost.
And then nintendo got taken to court for illegal business practices based on the prices they charged for "certification" and were made to send coupons to all NES owners (I think I still have mine somewhere).
Agreed. I have in the past played warcraft3 successfully with my nipple. For such a mouse intensive app, it's hard to imagine anyone playing it with a touchpad, though I imagine it's possible.
Rather than mussing with the wget script, it's much easier to simply use dyndns.org's free dynamic dns server. Debian and Ubuntu have an ez-ipupdate package that configures using debconf that will update the name-ip mapping automatically.
True enough, you get a nice desktop all set up at the end of the simple install process, but you still have to enable the universe, multiverse, and the 3rd party PLF repositories (and subsequently select/install the proper set of packages) if you want broad media format and CODEC support. Of course, this can all be automated with EasyUbuntu, though I've had EasyUbuntu fail from time to time.
I'm gonna go ahead and guess you probably think "Safari" is a terrible name for a browser, because you don't make the connection with surfin' and exploring.
Actually, I think it's a terrible name because it's an awful pun based on an awful Beach Boys song.
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While I generally applaud your intellectual smackdown, I must disagree with this: Democracy itself is founded on the basis of a middle class. Democracy has always been founding on an educated and wealthy elite. The so-called middle class (in the USA) came much later, and made universal democracy possible (which I think is your point). This is part of the problem with a policy of "bringing democracy to the world." It took the US over 150 years to open the democracy up to all citizens (and there are some that argue that we need to allow ex-convicts to vote anywhere in the country, too).
But yeah, a middle class facilitates a universal democracy.
What does embryonic stem cell research have to do with your aunt's abortion?
Hmm... I wonder what software you're using to burn CDs? The stuff that comes with Ubuntu 6.06 LTS runs under your user account (nautilus's integrated CD burner, serpentine audio CD creator, rhythmbox's music export) without any sudo requirement.
.NET hobbyist, I'd think you'd be interested in getting involved in Mono?
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#3 is probably accurate. Somewhere in the switch from the 2.2 kernel to the 2.4 kernel, changes in the VM manager really killed interactive performance under load (IMHO).
#4 isn't fair because you can't compare "Windows" and "Linux". It's true that Ubuntu has a way to go on this front (mostly because they don't run network-manager by default), but other distros have done a better job. Also, with Windows, you need to make sure you've got a driver disk available. With Linux, it generally either works out of the box, or it doesn't have drivers (ndiswrapper notwithstanding).
#5 is a matter of opinion, but windows lacks a lot of basic desktop features that are built into GNOME/Ubuntu by default. At the same time, there are a lot more companies providing commercial software for windows as well as shareware/adware vendors providing "1.0" level software, so I'm willing to concede the point.
As for the in unbulleted #6, I dunno what happened in your case, but I watch tons of videos at all sorts of high resolutions on circa 2001 thinkpads without any trouble.
My sister and fiance have both been using Ubuntu as their only OS for about a year and a half now. Neither of them are computer geeks, though I do tech support for them (which was also true when they were using Windows, too). I'll concede that if you don't have some friends that use it (and you don't care to get involved with the online communuties, any Linux distro probably won't cut it.
Since when does being "religious" mean you have to be Christian? Or that being a religious Christian mean that you have to disbelieve in evolution and prevent it being taught in schools? If you think its wrong, get involved in some cutting edge research and prove it wrong. I promise you, if you develop a novel, testable conceptual framework that better explains and predicts the phenomena we experience, it'll gain acceptance.
;-)). There are also atheist and even anti-religious scientists. The bigotry inherent in your defensive complaints belies your prejudice and bias. Keep your religion in your church and out of the communities schools.
There are many religious scientists. There are even many religious Christian scientists (even Christian Scientists, but that's something different
You're free to teach your kid anything you like, even take them out of classes, if you wish. Just don't try and deny everyone else their right to learn the latest science.
The reason your analogy is laughable is that nobody's proposing that today's science books are the word of God. They're just condensations of the current knowledge related to a certain field.
We know that science is fallible. Indeed, that's what makes it science. In 2000 years, the science books will be updated to reflect new understanding about the world based on evidence and tests of hypotheses. Nobody's editing the bible to keep up with the world.
The Sahara is in the tropics, but that land is not particularly productive.
Arable land is most productive when the climate is predictable (consider the capital outlay costs involved in farming, now consider having to move that farm because the local climate became drier and some remote climate became wetter and warmer). Climate change coming from more energy in the atmosphere increases unpredictability (though you'll probably not accept that assertion).
Humans are clever, and I'm sure we'll be able to work around climate change (particularly food production and distribution), but the nagging question is this: how many people will die in the meantime?
Where's firefox 2.0? Where's GNOME 2.16?
Hooray for experimental!
Constantly out of date desktop apps (even in sid!) is what drove me to Ubuntu back in the Hoary days.
Ever buy a PC or CPU with the latest and greatest AMD or Intel (or PPC ...) chip in it? Same principle applies. Intel and AMD make their money off of their high end model. The cost of producing the first chip is actually much lower than the price. In order to pay for the capital outlay for manufacturing and the design work, prices for the high end chips are much higher than the chips that are slightly older and slower.
OLPC is non-profit, so they aren't selling the OLPC this way, but they have similar needs. In this case, they're just being completely open about how and why they need to charge a price well above the direct cost.
Yeah, disks-admin is gone from the gnome-system-tool package:
... ...
gnome-system-tools (2.15.0-0ubuntu1) edgy; urgency=low
* New upstream release:
- dropped, disks-admin is dead.
-- Daniel Holbach Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:53:44 +0200
And then nintendo got taken to court for illegal business practices based on the prices they charged for "certification" and were made to send coupons to all NES owners (I think I still have mine somewhere).
Agreed. I have in the past played warcraft3 successfully with my nipple. For such a mouse intensive app, it's hard to imagine anyone playing it with a touchpad, though I imagine it's possible.
You may prefer to use QSynaptics to module tweaking: http://qsynaptics.sourceforge.net/ss.html
And the nipple is way better. My T30 has both, and I just disable the touchpad.
Does Debian have the sun-java5 packages yet? Or will that be present in a year or two?
a 5-jdk
Yes: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/sun-jav
They hit unstable the same say they hit dapper.
Rather than mussing with the wget script, it's much easier to simply use dyndns.org's free dynamic dns server. Debian and Ubuntu have an ez-ipupdate package that configures using debconf that will update the name-ip mapping automatically.
True enough, you get a nice desktop all set up at the end of the simple install process, but you still have to enable the universe, multiverse, and the 3rd party PLF repositories (and subsequently select/install the proper set of packages) if you want broad media format and CODEC support. Of course, this can all be automated with EasyUbuntu, though I've had EasyUbuntu fail from time to time.
Wow. What a terrible poll. Love the double negative: "No, the practice is not unconstitutional."
I find your use of profanity offensive. Get some ****ing manners.
Hmm... cyberterrorism as a form of nonviolet protest and civil disobedience... interesting...
A three word response is justified by a three word post.
It seems that the same argument would have applied to the founding of the GNOME project when KDE was an already functioning project.
Yes.
1) stick in CD
2) see icon appear on desktop
3) right click on icon, select Eject
4) CD pops out.
Use the PLF repository for ubuntu:
## http 100mbit/s mirror provided thanks to OVH http://ovh.com/
deb http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/ breezy free non-free
deb-src http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/ breezy free non-free
Not if you're considering a purely message passing language. Either a receiver can handle a message or not. No need for any sort of conversions.
It's the mechanism that shifts the chain onto a different geer cog on a multi-speed bicycle.
Actually, I think it's a terrible name because it's an awful pun based on an awful Beach Boys song.