I have to wonder if there shouldn't be an Lubuntu distro that is based on Ubuntu/Debian, but is a truly minimalistic distro like those you list.
I also have to wonder if it would catch on like Ubuntu did since Ubuntu's great advantage is 'ease of use' and not 'one fits all' like some seem to think it should be. Still, I'd like the option to have a fairly familiar environment but will run well on my ancient laptop.
The difference between this and any random company making an 'offer' is that you have already agreed to this shit when you signed the contract with Verizon. I think you'll find that if you re-read that contract, it says it can do whatever it wants with the information they collect from you and that this is merely a 'nice' (I use that word quite loosely) thing they are doing for you.
They aren't breaking that law because they already -have- your agreement. It's your disagreement they are asking for, and your silence cannot confirm disagreement.
This is just another shitty thing Verizon is doing on top of all the shitty things they already do.
That's not -quite- true. Every once in a while there's a crack that doesn't quite work right and crashes a critical point in the game, or introduces a bug that didn't exist in the official version. Also, patches have to be cracked as well, and it can be annoying to have to wait for another crack to continue playing.
But for the most part, DRM causes more issues than the cracks do. NWN, for example, didn't work with some peoples' CD drives. It would crash a few minutes in with no warning because it thought you had pirated it. Ask me how pissed I was that I bought a game and was forced to download the crack just to play it. I'm sure someone is going to say 'but they patched it and it works not'... Sure... That was weeks after it came out. Weeks. I'm still pissed about, apparently.
Indeed it is. I work with a guy who made something like this in another city. It was basically a site where you talk bad about other people you know 'anonymously'. Everyone was from the same little area that knew about the site, so it quickly grew out of hand and I believe he said he had to take it down 2 days later because of all the threats.
Apparently they were confused about the Gentoo... TFA says it actually shipped with Ubuntu instead. Probably a good idea since Gentoo peeps would probably rather customize it from the start anyhow, and Ubuntu is easier for the less techie of us.
I had been wondering when a tiny computer with 2 ethernet ports and decent CPU would come out... Too bad I've not got a router I really like and no real reason to mess with it now.
I don't know anyone that has a Wii that is gathering dust, and that includes the one at my Mother's house.
Games for -all- consoles tend to be a bit lacking this year, as far as I'm concerned, but the Wii has definitely kept up with the others in terms of game count. If anything, they should be asking if the PS3s are gathering dust. There's hardly any good games yet, and the ones that ARE out came out later than their 360 counterparts. Gamers aren't known for their patience at the time of a game's release... They buy what's available.
Yeah, according to random web chatter, there will be an OS X client using Cider. If there's a Linux client, it's pretty safe to say they'll also have an OS X client, even if the Cider bit is completely off-base.
Oh, I read that backwards, thanks. Yeah, that's quite a bit more specific than I thought.
I don't think KDE supports that feature with Kicker, so KDE appears to be fine, but Gnome will have to defend themselves. (Or anyone using Gnome.) I've heard people wishing KDE supported it and wondered why they didn't. Now I wonder if this is why... I somehow doubt it, though.
I seem to recall that Windows can make the taskbar span all the desktops, but it's several views of the same item, but viewing a different portion of the item.
There must also be quite a few art programs that violate this as well by displaying the same workspace multiple times with slightly different views... r/g/b/all colors for drawing (1 window each), multiple 3D views for Modelling and CAD programs... I wonder how many of them have paid for the rights?
I'm going to enjoy watching this play out. It should be noted that this isn't against 'Linux' but appears to be against X... Or maybe KDE... Or Gnome... Or Trolltech's Qt... Or... I'm not really sure because the patent is so vague that it covers just about anything I can think of that does more than 1 thing on the screen at the same time. Even Clippy would violate this patent because it has an input box (workspace) in its dialog while Office is still on the screen.
So they are Suing RedHat and Novell for using whatever it is that violates the patent. Isn't that a bit like suing Dell because Microsoft's OS infringes on a patent and Dell distributes it?
Yes, because it's -so- easy to acclimate to a new OS in 2 days. Seriously, how many non-techs do you know that can handle switching to a new OS without major headaches?
I'm not arguing that Vista is good or even acceptable, but in 2 days she didn't even try hard enough to bother complaining and certainly didn't know enough about it to call Ballmer out on it.
So, in short, the 13 yr old had no problem with it, but the mother couldn't understand it, so it's a bad OS? Yeah, that's GREAT logic.
Also, "she's 13" is not a valid retort for why it shouldn't matter that she found value in it. She obviously knew how to use it more than the mother did.
Ballmer was in an impossible situation here. He could make her look the complete fool and catch hell for picking on that woman, or let her 'win' and catch hell for letting a woman beat up his operating system. He chose the right route, for once.
I think you're confusing the politics of different groups. Wikipedia may have claimed that, but this is SourceWatch. They obviously feel that they need to have some facts checking done so that they aren't spreading information that's horribly wrong. I agree with them.
As far as the actual Wiki software developers go... Since there's the ability to lock down articles, I think they foresaw the need for administrators and experts.
I've been 'trying to get into game programming' for a while now, and I see a lot of talk about 'why doesn't someone create a standard library for objects' and such.
It usually comes down to 2 simple things:
1) Technology changes a -lot- year to year, and more complex items can be created.
2) Different people want the objects to do different things.
The 2 interact to quite an extent as well. Say someone creates a stove. Person A only cares that it looks like a stove, but B wants to have the oven door open realistic, the knobs turn, flames on the burners... A doesn't need that complexity because it's simply a background prop and having all that will slow the game/app down for no reason. B intends to have a Sims-like game where the stove is going to be 'used'.
Even the simplest of object have this problem.
As for VScape, it sounds nice, but will it handle first-person well? Physics? Run-n-gun gameplay? User-operated vehicles? Also, your news page says 'the latest news from the Joomla team' or something like that. Might want to change that.
There are plenty of references to a study published in the journal 'Cancer Epidemiology, Mile Markers, and Prevention'. Since access to the actual study seems to require a subscription, there's nothing to cite.
I've heard HFCS is bad for you from others as well, but they never had any scientific reasoning, just 'I heard's. The first few links from Google state some reasons it's bad for you and encourages cancer, though the reasons aren't necessarily unique to HFCS, but sugar in general. One interesting thing I learned is that 'Unlike glucose, it is not readily emptied into the cells for energy, and it does not stimulate the production of leptin, which is responsible for us feeling full.' Very interesting, and partially explains why I'm so hungry all the time. (I have a horrid amount of sugar in my diet, mostly HFCS.)
If you can track down that article (you're a lot more likely to have access to it than I would) then it'd be great if you could update that page.
On the other hand, it seems we have opposing articles all the time, and some that seem almost crazy. For instance 'sawdust causes cancer in lab rats.' I nearly choked when I heard that. If sawdust can cause cancer... What can't? (I later learned that it's probably the treatments the wood received, rather than the wood itself, so the conlusion was flawed, at the very least.)
As I've never run Gentoo, I can't argue for or against it.
But Kubuntu... I've run the beta on Dapper, Edgy, Feisty and now Gutsy. There have always been little things wrong with anything new but they were always fixed on release. For example, my current problem: All video that gets run through Xine is slanted. Like WTF. VLC works fine. KMPlayer (using Xine) doesn't. Kaffeine (Xine again!) doesn't.
It's particularly exasperating since I moved from a perfectly working Feisty 64-bit to a broken Gusty 32-bit. I'm confident they'll fix the problem eventually, but until then, I'm stuck with VLC. If I really really cared, I'd format and go back to Feisty 32-bit, but I really don't spend much time on the PC watching video... Living room works a lot better. (Mediatomb, etc.)
I haven't completely ruled out the possibility that I caused this somehow, but I have a feeling it is related to Compiz (which is awesome, and works great on my Intel onboard video) and I've not done a whole lot to try to diagnose the problem yet.
I also experienced an issue with packages when I first installed Gutsy... There were some packages relating to locale that were missing or messed up or something. It was corrected a couple days later.
Anyhow, the point is that although you didn't have any problems with betas, others may have.
Right, but that doesn't -mean- they can terminate you for any reason. It only states a few reasons that they won't. How about the rest of the policy?
However, AT&T may immediately terminate or suspend all or a portion of your Service, any Member ID, electronic mail address, IP address, Universal Resource Locator or domain name used by you, without notice, for conduct that AT&T believes (a) violates the Acceptable Use Policy; or (b) constitutes a violation of any law, regulation or tariff (including, without limitation, copyright and intellectual property laws) or a violation of these TOS, or any applicable policies or guidelines.. Your Service may be suspended or terminated if your payment is past due and such condition continues un-remedied for thirty (30) days. Termination or suspension by AT&T of Service also constitutes termination or suspension (as applicable) of your license to use any Software. AT&T may also terminate or suspend your Service if you provide false or inaccurate information that is required for the provision of Service or is necessary to allow AT&T to bill you for Service.
That lays down the terms under which they can terminate you, instead of just naming a few that they can't. The other bit IS PR crap and really has no reason to be in there.
I avoid it for another reason. I tend to enter into debates with others online, and if they don't say 'and don't cite wikipedia' beforehand, then they say it afterwards. The knowledge there is totally useless in a debate simply because it can be edited by anyone, regardless of what they actually know. Now, I use it as a last resort to look for information that might lead me to something a little more substantial.
Unfortunately, I can't even argue with them because it says things like "However, extreme summer humidity often boosts the heat index to around 110 F (43 C)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami,_Florida Try as I might, I could find no information on historic heat indexes in Miami on the web. The best I could find was high-low temperature and humidity charts, and since the heat index deals with the temperature and humidity at any given moment, it isn't very useful for calculating the heat index after the fact. Especially if you want to find out how often it hits 110.
Just about everything I've looked up on Wikipedia in the last month has been someone's personal view with no facts to sustain it. As a starting point for research, I can't even say it's a good idea because things are stated as fact that are personal observation (anecdotes) or opinion, and that can quickly taint your view of whatever you are searching and lead you down a bad path.
After seeing the tag 'charliejade', I was like 'yes!' For those who didn't get to see that great show, it was about a guy that can travel between different universes (the multi-verse) and one of them was extremely techie. In that one, they had insects that were spies.
Of course, I haven't seen it in a while now, so I may be a bit off with that explanation.
Quite an interesting show, despite the slow start.
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I stand corrected, thank you. (And thanks to the guy that replied about flexbuntu, too.)
I have to wonder if there shouldn't be an Lubuntu distro that is based on Ubuntu/Debian, but is a truly minimalistic distro like those you list.
I also have to wonder if it would catch on like Ubuntu did since Ubuntu's great advantage is 'ease of use' and not 'one fits all' like some seem to think it should be. Still, I'd like the option to have a fairly familiar environment but will run well on my ancient laptop.
The difference between this and any random company making an 'offer' is that you have already agreed to this shit when you signed the contract with Verizon. I think you'll find that if you re-read that contract, it says it can do whatever it wants with the information they collect from you and that this is merely a 'nice' (I use that word quite loosely) thing they are doing for you.
They aren't breaking that law because they already -have- your agreement. It's your disagreement they are asking for, and your silence cannot confirm disagreement.
This is just another shitty thing Verizon is doing on top of all the shitty things they already do.
That's not -quite- true. Every once in a while there's a crack that doesn't quite work right and crashes a critical point in the game, or introduces a bug that didn't exist in the official version. Also, patches have to be cracked as well, and it can be annoying to have to wait for another crack to continue playing.
But for the most part, DRM causes more issues than the cracks do. NWN, for example, didn't work with some peoples' CD drives. It would crash a few minutes in with no warning because it thought you had pirated it. Ask me how pissed I was that I bought a game and was forced to download the crack just to play it. I'm sure someone is going to say 'but they patched it and it works not'... Sure... That was weeks after it came out. Weeks. I'm still pissed about, apparently.
Indeed it is. I work with a guy who made something like this in another city. It was basically a site where you talk bad about other people you know 'anonymously'. Everyone was from the same little area that knew about the site, so it quickly grew out of hand and I believe he said he had to take it down 2 days later because of all the threats.
Apparently they were confused about the Gentoo... TFA says it actually shipped with Ubuntu instead. Probably a good idea since Gentoo peeps would probably rather customize it from the start anyhow, and Ubuntu is easier for the less techie of us.
I had been wondering when a tiny computer with 2 ethernet ports and decent CPU would come out... Too bad I've not got a router I really like and no real reason to mess with it now.
That hurts Rob's feelings when you say that. ;)
I don't know anyone that has a Wii that is gathering dust, and that includes the one at my Mother's house.
Games for -all- consoles tend to be a bit lacking this year, as far as I'm concerned, but the Wii has definitely kept up with the others in terms of game count. If anything, they should be asking if the PS3s are gathering dust. There's hardly any good games yet, and the ones that ARE out came out later than their 360 counterparts. Gamers aren't known for their patience at the time of a game's release... They buy what's available.
Yeah, according to random web chatter, there will be an OS X client using Cider. If there's a Linux client, it's pretty safe to say they'll also have an OS X client, even if the Cider bit is completely off-base.
For those that missed this wonderful joke, that changes all the Red to Green... As in, the blood.
It was an old tactic to get by the censors because green blood means it's not human and is therefore okay to kill, somehow.
Oh, I read that backwards, thanks. Yeah, that's quite a bit more specific than I thought.
I don't think KDE supports that feature with Kicker, so KDE appears to be fine, but Gnome will have to defend themselves. (Or anyone using Gnome.) I've heard people wishing KDE supported it and wondered why they didn't. Now I wonder if this is why... I somehow doubt it, though.
I seem to recall that Windows can make the taskbar span all the desktops, but it's several views of the same item, but viewing a different portion of the item.
There must also be quite a few art programs that violate this as well by displaying the same workspace multiple times with slightly different views... r/g/b/all colors for drawing (1 window each), multiple 3D views for Modelling and CAD programs... I wonder how many of them have paid for the rights?
I'm going to enjoy watching this play out. It should be noted that this isn't against 'Linux' but appears to be against X... Or maybe KDE... Or Gnome... Or Trolltech's Qt... Or... I'm not really sure because the patent is so vague that it covers just about anything I can think of that does more than 1 thing on the screen at the same time. Even Clippy would violate this patent because it has an input box (workspace) in its dialog while Office is still on the screen.
So they are Suing RedHat and Novell for using whatever it is that violates the patent. Isn't that a bit like suing Dell because Microsoft's OS infringes on a patent and Dell distributes it?
Yes, because it's -so- easy to acclimate to a new OS in 2 days. Seriously, how many non-techs do you know that can handle switching to a new OS without major headaches?
I'm not arguing that Vista is good or even acceptable, but in 2 days she didn't even try hard enough to bother complaining and certainly didn't know enough about it to call Ballmer out on it.
"Basically, he wasn't murdered because of spam. He was murdered because he was a anuscluster who crossed the wrong people."
I don't see the difference.
So, in short, the 13 yr old had no problem with it, but the mother couldn't understand it, so it's a bad OS? Yeah, that's GREAT logic.
Also, "she's 13" is not a valid retort for why it shouldn't matter that she found value in it. She obviously knew how to use it more than the mother did.
Ballmer was in an impossible situation here. He could make her look the complete fool and catch hell for picking on that woman, or let her 'win' and catch hell for letting a woman beat up his operating system. He chose the right route, for once.
For the record, Vista was the wrong route.
I think you're confusing the politics of different groups. Wikipedia may have claimed that, but this is SourceWatch. They obviously feel that they need to have some facts checking done so that they aren't spreading information that's horribly wrong. I agree with them.
As far as the actual Wiki software developers go... Since there's the ability to lock down articles, I think they foresaw the need for administrators and experts.
Sounds like your a project to watch, then. I wish I had more time to mess with stuff like this. -sigh-
My fault, I misread it. Yeah, then I've had no issues with Kubuntu on the releases. It's been rock solid.
I've been 'trying to get into game programming' for a while now, and I see a lot of talk about 'why doesn't someone create a standard library for objects' and such.
It usually comes down to 2 simple things:
1) Technology changes a -lot- year to year, and more complex items can be created.
2) Different people want the objects to do different things.
The 2 interact to quite an extent as well. Say someone creates a stove. Person A only cares that it looks like a stove, but B wants to have the oven door open realistic, the knobs turn, flames on the burners... A doesn't need that complexity because it's simply a background prop and having all that will slow the game/app down for no reason. B intends to have a Sims-like game where the stove is going to be 'used'.
Even the simplest of object have this problem.
As for VScape, it sounds nice, but will it handle first-person well? Physics? Run-n-gun gameplay? User-operated vehicles? Also, your news page says 'the latest news from the Joomla team' or something like that. Might want to change that.
I think you'll find all you need here: http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=high+fructose+corn+syrup+cancer&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
There are plenty of references to a study published in the journal 'Cancer Epidemiology, Mile Markers, and Prevention'. Since access to the actual study seems to require a subscription, there's nothing to cite.
I've heard HFCS is bad for you from others as well, but they never had any scientific reasoning, just 'I heard's. The first few links from Google state some reasons it's bad for you and encourages cancer, though the reasons aren't necessarily unique to HFCS, but sugar in general. One interesting thing I learned is that 'Unlike glucose, it is not readily emptied into the cells for energy, and it does not stimulate the production of leptin, which is responsible for us feeling full.' Very interesting, and partially explains why I'm so hungry all the time. (I have a horrid amount of sugar in my diet, mostly HFCS.)
If you can track down that article (you're a lot more likely to have access to it than I would) then it'd be great if you could update that page.
On the other hand, it seems we have opposing articles all the time, and some that seem almost crazy. For instance 'sawdust causes cancer in lab rats.' I nearly choked when I heard that. If sawdust can cause cancer... What can't? (I later learned that it's probably the treatments the wood received, rather than the wood itself, so the conlusion was flawed, at the very least.)
As I've never run Gentoo, I can't argue for or against it.
But Kubuntu... I've run the beta on Dapper, Edgy, Feisty and now Gutsy. There have always been little things wrong with anything new but they were always fixed on release. For example, my current problem: All video that gets run through Xine is slanted. Like WTF. VLC works fine. KMPlayer (using Xine) doesn't. Kaffeine (Xine again!) doesn't.
It's particularly exasperating since I moved from a perfectly working Feisty 64-bit to a broken Gusty 32-bit. I'm confident they'll fix the problem eventually, but until then, I'm stuck with VLC. If I really really cared, I'd format and go back to Feisty 32-bit, but I really don't spend much time on the PC watching video... Living room works a lot better. (Mediatomb, etc.)
I haven't completely ruled out the possibility that I caused this somehow, but I have a feeling it is related to Compiz (which is awesome, and works great on my Intel onboard video) and I've not done a whole lot to try to diagnose the problem yet.
I also experienced an issue with packages when I first installed Gutsy... There were some packages relating to locale that were missing or messed up or something. It was corrected a couple days later.
Anyhow, the point is that although you didn't have any problems with betas, others may have.
I had tried that, but somehow missed the hourly info... I'm tempted to write that script just to see how accurate that statement is after all.
That lays down the terms under which they can terminate you, instead of just naming a few that they can't. The other bit IS PR crap and really has no reason to be in there.
I avoid it for another reason. I tend to enter into debates with others online, and if they don't say 'and don't cite wikipedia' beforehand, then they say it afterwards. The knowledge there is totally useless in a debate simply because it can be edited by anyone, regardless of what they actually know. Now, I use it as a last resort to look for information that might lead me to something a little more substantial.
Unfortunately, I can't even argue with them because it says things like "However, extreme summer humidity often boosts the heat index to around 110 F (43 C)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami,_Florida Try as I might, I could find no information on historic heat indexes in Miami on the web. The best I could find was high-low temperature and humidity charts, and since the heat index deals with the temperature and humidity at any given moment, it isn't very useful for calculating the heat index after the fact. Especially if you want to find out how often it hits 110.
Just about everything I've looked up on Wikipedia in the last month has been someone's personal view with no facts to sustain it. As a starting point for research, I can't even say it's a good idea because things are stated as fact that are personal observation (anecdotes) or opinion, and that can quickly taint your view of whatever you are searching and lead you down a bad path.
After seeing the tag 'charliejade', I was like 'yes!' For those who didn't get to see that great show, it was about a guy that can travel between different universes (the multi-verse) and one of them was extremely techie. In that one, they had insects that were spies.
Of course, I haven't seen it in a while now, so I may be a bit off with that explanation.
Quite an interesting show, despite the slow start.