I know... Windows isn't completely useless, but no, you can't play Battlestar Galactica the series on DVD on an untouched windows xp... doesn't have the codecs. It is good for games, but so are game consoles.
I've never had 'bad' sound on a recent linux distro. BSG sounds fantastic on my Ubuntu system.
I bought a linux compatible hp printer for my box and it was auto detected and a wizard walked me through it all. No reboot and bob's your uncle, up and printing.
On my win xp machine, a reboot was necessary for the print capability, the scan capability, the fax capability, etc.
The printer is supposed to be windows 98 capable, but i had to spend an hour downloading an update for internet explorer for my wifes computer just to install the dang printer device, then reboot, reboot. (why you need to update a browser in order to print is beyond me).
Wireless... i don't know, because i'm on dial-up and totally wired unfortunately.
Digital cameras need to be linux capable, but that it is easy to do and works well (but sorry, never used RAW format).
You can go and blame manufacturers, and driver writers and whatever consumer conspiracy you want, but at the end of the day, consumers don't care. An operating system is an ecosystem, and either that ecosystem does what you want, or it doesn't, and under Linux, it doesn't, and for a lot of people.
I guess this is why no one wants Vista, cause nothing works in it and you can't blame the manufacturers and driver writers (and conspiracists).
And no, i don't hate the U.S. I just think some policies need to be re-thought... not quite the land of the free alot of Americans think it is.
Hi. My son is 7. Our house is a jail. There are locks on everything. We are concerned about his well-being. If there were no locks, we might not wake up if he didn't have to rattle his bedroom door (we have a hook and eye latch on his door for HIS safety). If we didn't wake up, he might fall down the stairs (we would have to put the baby gate back up which he would just climb over). If the back doors weren't locked at all times, he would run out-side where he might go on the road (a busy highway). We had to put a gate across our back yard to keep him from running to the lake (where he might fall onto the rocks off our (small) cliff, or drown himself) because my wife broke her ankle a couple years back and cannot catch him if he runs (her ankle has never healed properly).
Where to continue. We have tried different drugs and therapies, one which was supposed to calm him (one teeny-teeny drop) but did the exact opposite to the point where he literally spent an hour spinning in circles. When my wife asked him if he thought the drug was doing anything helpful for him he told her (on his computer type machine called a Voca) he 'told' her 'NO' by pushing his no icon.
Where to continue.
We ARE concerned for him, and concerned for his future. We know he is very smart, but he is non-verbal (for the most part, but he is talking more than he used to. the school system SUCKS for non-verbal autistic kids. We see the frustration he has when trying to communicate at times. I too have some autistic tendencies (i guess that's why i'm on slashdot and use gnu/linux) and i can be frustrated with myself at times.
I love my son, but sometimes feel like he is killing me and my marriage. My wife (a saint for sure) bears the blunt of his waking in the middle of the night etc, but it is hard when he goes to sleep at 10 pm and wakes up at 2 or 3 am. Try having alone time when you are both frustrated with jobs, life, everything.
Then again, we can have some wonderful times! If we were to win the lottery, alot of problems would go away... no worries about jobs, get him the therapy he needs (eg. aba/ibi), get some respite. that would ease things immensely.
and if i could sign him up for a cure, HELL YES I WOULD! You all have no idea what it can be like... there are times he sleeps 4 to 5 hours a night 4 to 5 nights in a row and DOES NOT NAP DURING THE DAY. Try to work a full time job when you are exhausted completely. Mentally speaking, I can be a mush head. Then, most of the day he cannot entertain himself because he has little to no imagination... he will not get together with friends to play tag, etc. His family are his friends, and we have to spend almost all our time entertaining him. If my wife and i leave him to go move furniture or something together, we can come back to find him climbing over the top railing of the stairs. He would fall to his death because he has no fears and no idea that he could come to harm. So one of us watches him almost constantly. HELL YES, BRING IT ON BABY. B R I N G I T O N !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND JESUS, PLEASE HURRY!
For myself, I think if Richard M. Stallman was present to go through the source code, do an MD5SUM on the source code, compile the code and do an MD5SUM on the binary, I personally would feel comfortable about his ethics enough to trust the ballot. Not sure how many other people I would trust, though... except of course Bill Gates or Monkey Boy... heh-heh. (Of course, I'd have to be able to verify the MD5SUM... hmmm.
"I am inclined to think that this blaze may have been the casting of the huge gun, IN THE VAST PIT SUNK INTO THEIR PLANET, from which their shots were fired at us." Wow... H.G. Wells was ahead of his time.
... if it does act just like Microsoft, it cannot over-step its boundaries. They should just do what they want, and when Microsoft complains, they should say "so sue us."
Then drag MS through the court system until MS pukes or gives in. IF they started acting like Microsoft, maybe Microsoft (Gates, Ballmer, lawyers, et. al.) might start acting human.
I like keeping Microsoft's damn, dirty paws off me! I use gnu/linux.
Mad? Mad? We have Terrence and Phillip on our side. And Ike!
Call us mad will you. Where YOU from? We will invade your country tomorrow, what with our naval ship and our helicopter, eh!
Call us mad. Yo'r granny!
no matter what they do from now on, Microsoft is going down... not out, but down.
People used to say that IBM was unbeatable, and now they are not what they were.
People say that Microsoft is unbeatable, but Apple is taking them down in many areas and gnu/linux/apache is taking them down in many more. Lately all they have been able to do is flounder around flapping their mouths and throwing chairs, promising this that and everything else and then announcing another delay.
I see the fog settling in and the icebergs are coming. I see a big, 'unsinkable' ship.
My crystal ball sees a much smaller Microsoft, my 8 ball says 'ask again later', and my Ballmers are getting kicked in.
what?? man what do you know? i buy my parts at a local store because it is cheap there. when i first started walking in and asking 'is this linux compatible' their answer was 'duh...'. after a few months, it was 'we don't support linux.' after a year it was 'let me check with this guy in the back.'. NOW it is 'yes, i have that one installed in my computer running fedora core, or centos or ??'.
and why do they know this???
because THEIR CUSTOMERS ARE ASKING FOR THIS INFORMATION, AND THEY ARE FINDING OUT THE ANSWERS AND INSTALLING THE PRODUCTS THEMSELVES!
I think the pity is that while 'scientists' are moving along with logic and thought it is the established 'religious leaders' who are not. If we all start thinking for ourselves (different from thinking only about ourselves) and we all realize that if you want to pray to whatever God you believe in, all you have to do is lay down your keyboards and pray... if we realize we don't have to go to church and pay 'dues' or tithes or whatever your church and religious leader call them, THEY will be out of jobs, and they don't want that. So they would rather you think like sixteenth century 'man' and keep going to church so they can keep their jobs (right on up to the pope, etc) and they can keep controlling your thoughts. Think for yourself... if you believe, believe. If you don't, don't; but don't pay them to keep the pope in a bubble car, travelling around like sideshow bob and not even able to complete audible sentences and living in the lap of luxury while others starve to death, or are molested by the religious leaders, while the 'religious' parade around like they are God's personal spokesman....
Oh man i could go on and on and on...
blah, who cares?
Microsoft has never 'gotten' it and never will: that is why I use alternatives, such as gnu/linux.
Where do i want to go today? Somewhere intelligent: so I opened up a door and closed all the Windows.
shut up or walk.
anything is hard until you are used to it... how hard it is for you depends on how much you want/need to learn it. I really wanted to learn linux because windows was BORING. I started with redhat 5.2, found it was interesting and learned more because i had the desire to. My daughter has learned to use Linspire because i won't hook our windows computer up to the internet... she learned because she needed to, to talk to her friends on IM.
My wife has learned very little of linux because she is used to windows and has little time or desire to learn something new.
Now that i use linux (and yes it was a learning curve) i find when i have to use windows, it is a re-learning curve i go through to do administration (its amazing how little you have to administer when you keep it off the network/internet).
I prefer gnu/linux, will use windows for gaming (only), but i also have the desire to experiment (have tried bsd but my hardware is not detected by half).
Maybe when linux goes mainstream, bsd or plan9 or something will be my new interest. who knows, but i'm sure i'll find the desire to learn it.
But you can be sure that MANY will not have the desire.
It's all about desire... i mean how many would leave their computers and learn about the opposite sex (or other humans for that matter) if not for sexual desire!
said that the linux operating system was merely 'a toy' operating system... until, that is, someone pointed out that that toy operating system was more stable and secure than Windows.....
Now he takes Gnu/Linux VERY seriously.
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I know... Windows isn't completely useless, but no, you can't play Battlestar Galactica the series on DVD on an untouched windows xp... doesn't have the codecs. It is good for games, but so are game consoles.
I've never had 'bad' sound on a recent linux distro. BSG sounds fantastic on my Ubuntu system.
I bought a linux compatible hp printer for my box and it was auto detected and a wizard walked me through it all. No reboot and bob's your uncle, up and printing. On my win xp machine, a reboot was necessary for the print capability, the scan capability, the fax capability, etc.
The printer is supposed to be windows 98 capable, but i had to spend an hour downloading an update for internet explorer for my wifes computer just to install the dang printer device, then reboot, reboot. (why you need to update a browser in order to print is beyond me).
Wireless... i don't know, because i'm on dial-up and totally wired unfortunately.
Digital cameras need to be linux capable, but that it is easy to do and works well (but sorry, never used RAW format).
You can go and blame manufacturers, and driver writers and whatever consumer conspiracy you want, but at the end of the day, consumers don't care. An operating system is an ecosystem, and either that ecosystem does what you want, or it doesn't, and under Linux, it doesn't, and for a lot of people.
I guess this is why no one wants Vista, cause nothing works in it and you can't blame the manufacturers and driver writers (and conspiracists).
And no, i don't hate the U.S. I just think some policies need to be re-thought... not quite the land of the free alot of Americans think it is.
rah rah, USA... pathetic.
If you consider Windows good, I've got some swamp land in Florida for you.
GOOD? GOOD? Wow. Some people never learn, do they.
Hi. My son is 7. Our house is a jail. There are locks on everything. We are concerned about his well-being. If there were no locks, we might not wake up if he didn't have to rattle his bedroom door (we have a hook and eye latch on his door for HIS safety). If we didn't wake up, he might fall down the stairs (we would have to put the baby gate back up which he would just climb over). If the back doors weren't locked at all times, he would run out-side where he might go on the road (a busy highway). We had to put a gate across our back yard to keep him from running to the lake (where he might fall onto the rocks off our (small) cliff, or drown himself) because my wife broke her ankle a couple years back and cannot catch him if he runs (her ankle has never healed properly).
Where to continue.
We have tried different drugs and therapies, one which was supposed to calm him (one teeny-teeny drop) but did the exact opposite to the point where he literally spent an hour spinning in circles. When my wife asked him if he thought the drug was doing anything helpful for him he told her (on his computer type machine called a Voca) he 'told' her 'NO' by pushing his no icon.
Where to continue.
We ARE concerned for him, and concerned for his future. We know he is very smart, but he is non-verbal (for the most part, but he is talking more than he used to. the school system SUCKS for non-verbal autistic kids. We see the frustration he has when trying to communicate at times. I too have some autistic tendencies (i guess that's why i'm on slashdot and use gnu/linux) and i can be frustrated with myself at times.
I love my son, but sometimes feel like he is killing me and my marriage. My wife (a saint for sure) bears the blunt of his waking in the middle of the night etc, but it is hard when he goes to sleep at 10 pm and wakes up at 2 or 3 am. Try having alone time when you are both frustrated with jobs, life, everything.
Then again, we can have some wonderful times! If we were to win the lottery, alot of problems would go away... no worries about jobs, get him the therapy he needs (eg. aba/ibi), get some respite. that would ease things immensely.
just ranting. thanks.
and if i could sign him up for a cure, HELL YES I WOULD! You all have no idea what it can be like... there are times he sleeps 4 to 5 hours a night 4 to 5 nights in a row and DOES NOT NAP DURING THE DAY. Try to work a full time job when you are exhausted completely. Mentally speaking, I can be a mush head. Then, most of the day he cannot entertain himself because he has little to no imagination... he will not get together with friends to play tag, etc. His family are his friends, and we have to spend almost all our time entertaining him. If my wife and i leave him to go move furniture or something together, we can come back to find him climbing over the top railing of the stairs. He would fall to his death because he has no fears and no idea that he could come to harm. So one of us watches him almost constantly.
HELL YES, BRING IT ON BABY. B R I N G I T O N !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND JESUS, PLEASE HURRY!
For myself, I think if Richard M. Stallman was present to go through the source code, do an MD5SUM on the source code, compile the code and do an MD5SUM on the binary, I personally would feel comfortable about his ethics enough to trust the ballot. Not sure how many other people I would trust, though... except of course Bill Gates or Monkey Boy... heh-heh. (Of course, I'd have to be able to verify the MD5SUM... hmmm.
"I am inclined to think that this blaze may have been the casting of the huge gun, IN THE VAST PIT SUNK INTO THEIR PLANET, from which their shots were fired at us."
Wow... H.G. Wells was ahead of his time.
... if it does act just like Microsoft, it cannot over-step its boundaries. They should just do what they want, and when Microsoft complains, they should say "so sue us." Then drag MS through the court system until MS pukes or gives in. IF they started acting like Microsoft, maybe Microsoft (Gates, Ballmer, lawyers, et. al.) might start acting human. I like keeping Microsoft's damn, dirty paws off me! I use gnu/linux.
Mad? Mad? We have Terrence and Phillip on our side. And Ike! Call us mad will you. Where YOU from? We will invade your country tomorrow, what with our naval ship and our helicopter, eh! Call us mad. Yo'r granny!
When was the last time a genetic predisposition to heart disease, diabetes or MS
I knew Microsoft was a terrible disease!
Now that news is real shiny!
You're gonna watch it with us, right Grandpa?
no matter what they do from now on, Microsoft is going down... not out, but down.
People used to say that IBM was unbeatable, and now they are not what they were.
People say that Microsoft is unbeatable, but Apple is taking them down in many areas and gnu/linux/apache is taking them down in many more. Lately all they have been able to do is flounder around flapping their mouths and throwing chairs, promising this that and everything else and then announcing another delay.
I see the fog settling in and the icebergs are coming. I see a big, 'unsinkable' ship.
My crystal ball sees a much smaller Microsoft, my 8 ball says 'ask again later', and my Ballmers are getting kicked in.
what?? man what do you know? i buy my parts at a local store because it is cheap there. when i first started walking in and asking 'is this linux compatible' their answer was 'duh...'. after a few months, it was 'we don't support linux.' after a year it was 'let me check with this guy in the back.'. NOW it is 'yes, i have that one installed in my computer running fedora core, or centos or ??'. and why do they know this??? because THEIR CUSTOMERS ARE ASKING FOR THIS INFORMATION, AND THEY ARE FINDING OUT THE ANSWERS AND INSTALLING THE PRODUCTS THEMSELVES!
I think the pity is that while 'scientists' are moving along with logic and thought it is the established 'religious leaders' who are not.
If we all start thinking for ourselves (different from thinking only about ourselves) and we all realize that if you want to pray to whatever God you believe in, all you have to do is lay down your keyboards and pray... if we realize we don't have to go to church and pay 'dues' or tithes or whatever your church and religious leader call them, THEY will be out of jobs, and they don't want that. So they would rather you think like sixteenth century 'man' and keep going to church so they can keep their jobs (right on up to the pope, etc) and they can keep controlling your thoughts.
Think for yourself... if you believe, believe. If you don't, don't; but don't pay them to keep the pope in a bubble car, travelling around like sideshow bob and not even able to complete audible sentences and living in the lap of luxury while others starve to death, or are molested by the religious leaders, while the 'religious' parade around like they are God's personal spokesman....
Oh man i could go on and on and on...
blah, who cares? Microsoft has never 'gotten' it and never will: that is why I use alternatives, such as gnu/linux. Where do i want to go today? Somewhere intelligent: so I opened up a door and closed all the Windows. shut up or walk.
anything is hard until you are used to it... how hard it is for you depends on how much you want/need to learn it. I really wanted to learn linux because windows was BORING. I started with redhat 5.2, found it was interesting and learned more because i had the desire to. My daughter has learned to use Linspire because i won't hook our windows computer up to the internet... she learned because she needed to, to talk to her friends on IM. My wife has learned very little of linux because she is used to windows and has little time or desire to learn something new.
Now that i use linux (and yes it was a learning curve) i find when i have to use windows, it is a re-learning curve i go through to do administration (its amazing how little you have to administer when you keep it off the network/internet).
I prefer gnu/linux, will use windows for gaming (only), but i also have the desire to experiment (have tried bsd but my hardware is not detected by half).
Maybe when linux goes mainstream, bsd or plan9 or something will be my new interest. who knows, but i'm sure i'll find the desire to learn it.
But you can be sure that MANY will not have the desire.
It's all about desire... i mean how many would leave their computers and learn about the opposite sex (or other humans for that matter) if not for sexual desire!
Ummmmm....donuts!
said that the linux operating system was merely 'a toy' operating system... until, that is, someone pointed out that that toy operating system was more stable and secure than Windows..... Now he takes Gnu/Linux VERY seriously.
How about RedHat Bob, or Suse ME! Or do something weird like bring out a free Office Suite!