If it's based on the terrible Energon line that currently infects tellivision I will personally hunt down ever person involved with the making of that film and slap them.
In Ubuntu use System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager.
I can tell you that now, but I couldn't have then, and I still have no clue what Yast2 is, so I hope that in the context of having SUSE running it's some obvious choice.
It's easy to hit the right button, once someone points it out to you.
But to put it in perspective. I've spent more time in the past month looking up how to get updates and handle new packages in Linux than I've spent in Windows since I got my first computer.
Linux is getting better by the day, but as long as people need to use a text editor and command line to get more software packages it's still going to be daunting and inaccessable to a large population.
I was advised by my friend who spends entirely too much time tweaking, because that's what he likes to do, to install gentoo on my laptop.
Days of minor annoyance later I downloaded the ubuntu CD and 30 minutes later I was ready to go. There are still some things I'm utterly lost on and have to spend an hour reading forums and guides, but all in all it's functional and friendly right out of the box.
It's not actually an optimised compiler for Intel processors either though. Infact, unless you're running an Genuine Intel Pentium 4, or disabling the hardware check, it's a sabotaged code machine.
Furthermore, Intel does not market it as "superfast code for Intels" nor is that even the common conception of what it is. The Intel compiler is a compiler made by intel using their years of engineering experience to produce some great code. Or it would produce great code, if you only want to use Genuine Intel Pentium 4s! Not becuase it's incapable of producing good code for others, but becuase they intentionally broke the code for other processors, including their own.
Furthermore, all of this is part of a larger anti-trust case, and in the contect of an anti-trust case, as stated in the other thread, it's not illegal to have a monopoly, but it is illegal to use your market power to utterly destroy the competition through hardball tactics (like their marketing practices) or through unfair advantages from crossover markets (compilers & processors)
This isn't a best tool for the job issue, and trying to treat it like it is is the hight of ignorance.
I'm not anymore. I used to play Unreal Tournament daily, and even with a 1000+ ping from the worst dailup imaginable I held my own on any TFC server. Then I started sleeping more then 3 hours a night and started playing RPGs and RTSs. I guess at 20 I'm already on the way out for videogames.
That's pretty severe.
I used to work at Target. We always got our new release stuff in easily the weekend before if not earlier and if their was a box that haddn't been rifled through by the time tuesday morning rolled around it'd be the first time.
Of course shutting down Napsters forced people to even bigger and more capable networks. Now sitting on torrents and broadband I can download 100 times as much with a fraction of the effort.
the RIAA and MPAA continue to push, and filesharers, whatever their motive, will continue to push back twice as hard.
Unless the guy that snuck in told his friends what a great museum it is, and later that week he takes he date there. You lost the initial $50, but made back $500. That's not to say that everyone who downloads waresz has a positive marketing affect, that's far fetched at best, but no analogy featuring a rigid model of loss and gain will work.
Or because the best Q3 players are ritalin addicted 13 year olds with ADD. I'd have great reflexes if I was hopped up on speed too. Who needs a story if you can twitch the night away.
Give me Far Cry or Half-Life 2 anyday.
It's even cooler to hate Intel becuase they brag about their chips costing more.
There was a not-quite-recent article in News Week or a similar magazine with the new president of Intel boasting that almost 50% of the price you pay for Intel processors is profit for Intel. If they dropped their desktop processor prices even 20% they'd be competitive for the money with AMD chips and you'd still be looking at monster profits. Why bother though when you can just stick a celeron in 50,000 Dells because nobody will notice the difference?
They can cut distribution through a retailer, they can't cut distribution through an individual store. If Scolastic decides they don't want Harry Potter books at any Barnes and Noble that's their choice. I was speaking at the store level, which is where products are sold, street-date violations happen, fines are paid, and I have any semblance of a meaningful say in the matter.
Five minutes on the Ubuntu community forums (a small fraction of the 45 minutes I spend paging through them today) would give one the impression that driver support does infact lag behind windows, if not in many places than atleast in ATI graphics drivers.
The PLO is still allowed to fundraise in America as are groups that funnel money to the Islamic Jihad, Hezzbola etc etc. It's not as safe as it was five years ago, you may find yourself imprisioned indefinately for a speeding ticket at this point, but case in point America has never been one to crack down on beggars.
I'm too lazy to read 313 comments to see if it's been mentioned already, but to the best of my knowledge Scolastic is not allowed to discontinue future distribution through a store based on a break in the street date. I used to work at a Target store and we had street dated material every week. If we broke it they are allowed to fine us obscene amounts of money ($5000 per copy of Windows XP sold before release date etc etc) but it was explicitly stated in the corprate material concerning new releases that they are not granted right to deny us future releases either in timing or quantity.
They could launch dozens of terrorists attacks, but what would it accomplish?
For one terrorist attack the U.S. has occupied two countries, spent billions on revamps and reorganization, detained thousands. If their were terrorist assaults ever weekend how long do you think it would take before every street corner had an armed guard and the middle east was a smouldering nuclear wasteland?
Would that solve the problem? Probably not. One would almost hope that as another poster spoke, that the terrorist would realize at some point that bombing is counter productive.
Xenophobic immagration laws?
We have people trying to grant illegals amnesty and identification. Make it legal for them to get drivers licenses and so on and so forth.
I had more problems getting into Canada for the weekend then most people have getting into this country.
I disagree entirely that technology and bandwidth limitations are at all the deciding factor. The local ISPs here, and from what I have heard everwhere else, are just looking for a way to charge more.
If they can offer you a DSL package that's 512/128, 512/256, 512/512, and cable with 1.5/any number of upload speads, using all the same hardware (different modems obviously...) it's not a hardware issue at all. They're just getting by with offering you as little as possible unless you want to pay more for it. People webrowsing only need enough upload capacity to maintain their downstream, so why offer them any more than that bare minimum? In a lot of cases infact they don't even offer that, if you have a 4-5mbps down and only 128-256 up you're getting hosed.
Let's look at the founding fathers stances on a standing army. The Fedralists such as Hamilton and Adams, were greatly in favor of a staning army as the means to defend the nation and enforce the strong central powers.
Jeffersonion Republicans such as Jefferson (duh) and Jackson thought that levying taxes to fund a nation force was an enfringement on states rights and that that a military in general was an economic burdon
So to put it bluntly, don't use "the founding fathers say . .." as an argument, because they rarely agreed, on this or on anything else.
"Sweden
In Sweden military service is mandatory for men only. As of 2002, Quick Facts about: Sweden
A Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian PeninsulaSweden's government asked the army to consider mandatory army service for women. Less than a third of the Scandinavian country's eligible 19-year-olds are actually drafted each year. See Sweden considers mandatory military service for women.
Men may choose to do unarmed service, for instance as a firefighter. Generally unarmed service is longer than armed."
I'm not saying that proves anything, nor do the other sites that had little snippets saying the same thing that I read before getting to that one. I'm just saying that if Sweden does not, in fact, require military service there are a grave number of people who are misinformed.
When talking about computers there's no such thing as "have to"
Gamers can play tiddlywinks.
Programmers can work at McDonalds
Hospitals can go back to the 70s.
Or you could just accept that the much hated Windows does have a use sometimes, to some people.
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"I hate yogurt, even with strawberries!" Close enough?
If it's based on the terrible Energon line that currently infects tellivision I will personally hunt down ever person involved with the making of that film and slap them.
In Ubuntu use System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager.
I can tell you that now, but I couldn't have then, and I still have no clue what Yast2 is, so I hope that in the context of having SUSE running it's some obvious choice.
It's easy to hit the right button, once someone points it out to you.
Ubuntu also did fine in a similar situation.
But to put it in perspective. I've spent more time in the past month looking up how to get updates and handle new packages in Linux than I've spent in Windows since I got my first computer.
Linux is getting better by the day, but as long as people need to use a text editor and command line to get more software packages it's still going to be daunting and inaccessable to a large population.
I was advised by my friend who spends entirely too much time tweaking, because that's what he likes to do, to install gentoo on my laptop.
Days of minor annoyance later I downloaded the ubuntu CD and 30 minutes later I was ready to go. There are still some things I'm utterly lost on and have to spend an hour reading forums and guides, but all in all it's functional and friendly right out of the box.
It's not actually an optimised compiler for Intel processors either though. Infact, unless you're running an Genuine Intel Pentium 4, or disabling the hardware check, it's a sabotaged code machine.
Furthermore, Intel does not market it as "superfast code for Intels" nor is that even the common conception of what it is. The Intel compiler is a compiler made by intel using their years of engineering experience to produce some great code. Or it would produce great code, if you only want to use Genuine Intel Pentium 4s! Not becuase it's incapable of producing good code for others, but becuase they intentionally broke the code for other processors, including their own.
Furthermore, all of this is part of a larger anti-trust case, and in the contect of an anti-trust case, as stated in the other thread, it's not illegal to have a monopoly, but it is illegal to use your market power to utterly destroy the competition through hardball tactics (like their marketing practices) or through unfair advantages from crossover markets (compilers & processors) This isn't a best tool for the job issue, and trying to treat it like it is is the hight of ignorance.
I'm not anymore. I used to play Unreal Tournament daily, and even with a 1000+ ping from the worst dailup imaginable I held my own on any TFC server. Then I started sleeping more then 3 hours a night and started playing RPGs and RTSs. I guess at 20 I'm already on the way out for videogames.
That's pretty severe. I used to work at Target. We always got our new release stuff in easily the weekend before if not earlier and if their was a box that haddn't been rifled through by the time tuesday morning rolled around it'd be the first time.
The thread that everyone has already read concerning the Intel compiler states it time and again.
Intel isn't writing code that's not optimized to AMD.
Intel isn't even writing code that runs the same for everone.
Intel is putting out code that actively searches for non-Intel chips and if found outputs the most deoptimized code imaginable.
Of course shutting down Napsters forced people to even bigger and more capable networks. Now sitting on torrents and broadband I can download 100 times as much with a fraction of the effort.
the RIAA and MPAA continue to push, and filesharers, whatever their motive, will continue to push back twice as hard.
Unless the guy that snuck in told his friends what a great museum it is, and later that week he takes he date there. You lost the initial $50, but made back $500. That's not to say that everyone who downloads waresz has a positive marketing affect, that's far fetched at best, but no analogy featuring a rigid model of loss and gain will work.
Or because the best Q3 players are ritalin addicted 13 year olds with ADD. I'd have great reflexes if I was hopped up on speed too. Who needs a story if you can twitch the night away. Give me Far Cry or Half-Life 2 anyday.
It's even cooler to hate Intel becuase they brag about their chips costing more.
There was a not-quite-recent article in News Week or a similar magazine with the new president of Intel boasting that almost 50% of the price you pay for Intel processors is profit for Intel. If they dropped their desktop processor prices even 20% they'd be competitive for the money with AMD chips and you'd still be looking at monster profits. Why bother though when you can just stick a celeron in 50,000 Dells because nobody will notice the difference?
They can cut distribution through a retailer, they can't cut distribution through an individual store. If Scolastic decides they don't want Harry Potter books at any Barnes and Noble that's their choice. I was speaking at the store level, which is where products are sold, street-date violations happen, fines are paid, and I have any semblance of a meaningful say in the matter.
Five minutes on the Ubuntu community forums (a small fraction of the 45 minutes I spend paging through them today) would give one the impression that driver support does infact lag behind windows, if not in many places than atleast in ATI graphics drivers.
The PLO is still allowed to fundraise in America as are groups that funnel money to the Islamic Jihad, Hezzbola etc etc. It's not as safe as it was five years ago, you may find yourself imprisioned indefinately for a speeding ticket at this point, but case in point America has never been one to crack down on beggars.
I'm too lazy to read 313 comments to see if it's been mentioned already, but to the best of my knowledge Scolastic is not allowed to discontinue future distribution through a store based on a break in the street date. I used to work at a Target store and we had street dated material every week. If we broke it they are allowed to fine us obscene amounts of money ($5000 per copy of Windows XP sold before release date etc etc) but it was explicitly stated in the corprate material concerning new releases that they are not granted right to deny us future releases either in timing or quantity.
They could launch dozens of terrorists attacks, but what would it accomplish?
For one terrorist attack the U.S. has occupied two countries, spent billions on revamps and reorganization, detained thousands. If their were terrorist assaults ever weekend how long do you think it would take before every street corner had an armed guard and the middle east was a smouldering nuclear wasteland?
Would that solve the problem? Probably not. One would almost hope that as another poster spoke, that the terrorist would realize at some point that bombing is counter productive.
Xenophobic immagration laws? We have people trying to grant illegals amnesty and identification. Make it legal for them to get drivers licenses and so on and so forth. I had more problems getting into Canada for the weekend then most people have getting into this country.
It's just like Johnny Nemonic!
I disagree entirely that technology and bandwidth limitations are at all the deciding factor. The local ISPs here, and from what I have heard everwhere else, are just looking for a way to charge more.
If they can offer you a DSL package that's 512/128, 512/256, 512/512, and cable with 1.5/any number of upload speads, using all the same hardware (different modems obviously...) it's not a hardware issue at all. They're just getting by with offering you as little as possible unless you want to pay more for it. People webrowsing only need enough upload capacity to maintain their downstream, so why offer them any more than that bare minimum? In a lot of cases infact they don't even offer that, if you have a 4-5mbps down and only 128-256 up you're getting hosed.
12:1 If you look at the Wikipedia article on the TPC protocol it will tell you that. It may hold different for other ones.
Let's look at the founding fathers stances on a standing army. The Fedralists such as Hamilton and Adams, were greatly in favor of a staning army as the means to defend the nation and enforce the strong central powers. Jeffersonion Republicans such as Jefferson (duh) and Jackson thought that levying taxes to fund a nation force was an enfringement on states rights and that that a military in general was an economic burdon So to put it bluntly, don't use "the founding fathers say . . ." as an argument, because they rarely agreed, on this or on anything else.
"Sweden In Sweden military service is mandatory for men only. As of 2002, Quick Facts about: Sweden A Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian PeninsulaSweden's government asked the army to consider mandatory army service for women. Less than a third of the Scandinavian country's eligible 19-year-olds are actually drafted each year. See Sweden considers mandatory military service for women.
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Men may choose to do unarmed service, for instance as a firefighter. Generally unarmed service is longer than armed."
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/C/C
I'm not saying that proves anything, nor do the other sites that had little snippets saying the same thing that I read before getting to that one. I'm just saying that if Sweden does not, in fact, require military service there are a grave number of people who are misinformed.
When talking about computers there's no such thing as "have to" Gamers can play tiddlywinks. Programmers can work at McDonalds Hospitals can go back to the 70s. Or you could just accept that the much hated Windows does have a use sometimes, to some people.