Decent language? The whole idea that some words are offensive or dirty and some aren't is kind of lame and actually far from any intellectual insight. What matters is the use you give to words and in this case Fucking cheap is a really good term to use cause it highlights the fact that there is a major cost difference and that South African schools would rather spend less.
Well I would like both formats to lose absurdly. But I guess that there are 2 things required for a consumer to actually buy one of these players: - Get money for the HD tv. - Get money for the player - Get time to inform yourself about them. - Wait until enough reviews are out so at least you have a clue which format is better.
There are rather few comparissions out there and most of them didn't really use a good TV or are not fair or anything. The money is rather an important issue here cause you would have to get a player and a TV and both are not the cheapest items in the store. I would wait for christmas buying season before actually judging success, although I hope that both formats die.
I am dissapointed that they made a move towards the 'feature' from Opera I hate the most, the interface is ugly, it is a shame cause the one in the alpha version was excellent. I just cannot understand this change. I hope I can change this easily.
I am still using firefox 2 alpha (Bon Echo) Should try later, but this one (bon echo) has to be the most stable firefox version ever. Even the exploit that worked on 1.5.0.6 didn't work here.
Isn't this comment insightful? How many hardcore gamers do you know out there? And how much of the market involves them? Does a console success depends on hardcore gamers buying it? Or does it depends on enough sold products? Also these guys said that they won't buy it in the release date, and did not seem to mean that they will not ever buy it.
Actually, it points out what people already know: Corporations and businesses use Windows PCs. Windows for many is Word and Excel. And almost everyone who has used a Windows PC at work has hated it at some point
It would be the same for any OS, wouldn't it? If they used a mac in corporations they would be most likelly to work and not to have a good time. Even if someone releases a "fun os" I'll probably hate it that tries to make my work 'funnier' by popping out rainbows on me while I work.
Programs with odd names performing illegal operations and offering them the change to debug, only to do nothing useful. And so on.
I dislike FUD, even if it is against windows, it would be odd that those misterious programs from nowhere appear while they are at work, and if they are at home well the user was most likelly looking for it to happen. It is not like Mac has an anti odd name policy or if it doesn't have exception handling in their programs.
The Mac is being shown in the light of being a computer for your home life, far away from spreadsheets and Active Directory, where your photos, home movies, and music play a much stronger role, and showing ease-of-use for doing nice things with that media.
All right, 2 things that Macs can't do: Play most of the newest games and Play movies in the latest formats without downloading a media player which is what you would call "evil configuration". How would they be more of a home life computer than a PC? I am using a PC for my home life computer and do not have any complaint yet,and unlike what you seem to think windows is in no way forcing me to use Spreadsheets
Remember that the majority of new Windows PC owners buy an OEM machine and can barely plug in all the color-coded cables. They turn it on and the Windows setup wizard starts as you said. Fine. Now your OEM machine is detecting the 3-in-one inkjet-scanner-fax printer that came bundled free with the computer. Windows is now pompting them to install three items it has detected. Each one throwing up the New hardware wizard. Not to mention the computer's system image was from 4 months ago, so they need to download 55MB of patches on their dial-up connection in order to be "safe".
You see, the majority of new comp owners just pay someone to configure their stuff, and if more people used macs the dumb majority would also have problems with them and have someone paid to do that stuff.
I am happy with my PC Kubuntu - windows XP combo, it is really fast, works as an entertainment center, can do anything from playing the latest games to doing my homework, developing php web sites or c++ programs pretty well. In fact this comp is a home life computer and is very effective at that, so I have a name for this kind advertising: FUD. I 'd like to see advertisements that actually tell me why should I buy a computer instead of just trying to make me believe my PC is not fun enough for me.
I actually think that the death of HD is more likelly to happen than linux getting more users than windows because of this. It is a pity but users would't move away so easily even if the linux developer manage to reverse engineer the HD protection and allow to play movies corectly. I think it would be easier for the users to keep buying DVDs, it is not like there is much noticieable improvement on HD-DVD , specially with most TVs not having enough resolution. It is also not likelly the media companies are able to instantly stop the production of DVDs and move to the HD alternatives.
Why does everybody come up with crazy theories like firefox using 800MB? I seriously have never seen it go above 100 which is high but it is not as bad as some people believe, In fact I am more likelly to believe that people read 80MB as 800 or are exaggerating their experience in order to sound more right (which is ridiculous btw)
How to install VLC media player on kubuntu: * Press the K at the bottom that resembles the start menu * Go to system tools and select Adept package manager. * Insert your password * Use the search box to type VLC * Click the install button * Start the download and installation progress.
It is not that difficult.
I was able to survive on ubuntu with apt based managers (synaptic / adept) , for those applications that didn't have packages (which are not really for the average user but for the geek that wants to try stuff not from canonical) I just had to investigate the web for installation instructions. I eventually got able to learn how to install.deb packages and how to use apt-get.
In the case of windows. You download an.exe or.msi file and double click. Which is not too different from downloading.deb package and using the context menu to install. Of course the difference lies with the number of requisites that it might have. Windows applications would mostly not have any requirement or use.NET in the case of linux dependency hell is something you live with.
But distributions latelly try to come with the most used libraries already installed and the rest of libraries seem to focus on making packages or have people making packages.
But I'd like to state that installation of software in linux is slowly getting less painful. You gotta watch the new installers available that do not use packages but come in the shape of a binary that has a bash script in the top and use an interface to install everything needed. An strategy game called glest used it and it was a lot like just using an.msi.
As terrorists, their objective is to cause terror. Although their final objective is total destruction, affecting occident's lifestyle and keeping them afraid and aware of their thread is a won battle for them. As long as they have altered your lifestyle and get you on the defensive they are currently in control of the situation, cause your government seems to be good at limiting your own rights instead of defending your country against them.
I would agree on the other points but sudo works all right for me, if I ever want to keep the root permissions for a good while (which happens rarely) sudo has an argument that allows a fake login as root. Otherwise it is faster than logging in as root just to make install
8 year olds should NEVER be put in a situation where they would need a cell phone.
It is not like the parents would actually want that to happen, but consider the odds, moments when kids need to contact their parents do happen. I would find it hard to believe that yourself never were in such a situation, which with enough bad luck and the right circumstances could have ended badly.
It doesn't really matter, does it? They developed the software and they decide what license to use, it doesn't matter if their reasons are bad, foolish or whatever they have the right to choose.
I for one, don't think that they want to stop war with this but they just wouldn't like the idea of their work to be used in a war
When I first learned about php I read about XSS and SQL injection, I thought that sanitizing output/content to be used in queries was security 099 . I eventually got surprised that not even the big ones care enough about this. Google had an XSS exploit (although it was fixed the same day it was announced), Other sites that youtube, nsa , and msn got XSS flaws recently as well.
Try a search engine that does not log your searches. Although that might be hard to find, if you are uncomfortable with google's methods, you don't have to do any proxy magic, you can just try another site, that's the reason competition is good for the user, isn't it?
But Ajax makes it so you only download the updated information instead of a whole page with all the layout and previous information, so it is still better, specially for those without broadband connection - as long as a "Please wait - updating" message or something like that is shown at the time of updating.
I would never understand python and making it indent-dependant ruined the language in my opinion, lack of block begin/close is just lame and makes the stuff harder to read besides it goes against one of the main principles of programming . Programs must have an start and an end.
I actually think that if anything it makes things harder to read. For an scripting language that is supposed to be easy then specific begin and end blocks for different kinds of statements are always a good idea. So you know that "that while is finishing just after that if finishes" instead of "I see two }} , I'll have to scroll up to figure out what they are closing" or "I see that statements are not so on the right anymore I wonder what actually finished here".
If the idea behind that was saving time then it probably has some credit but how much time is that anyways? I also thing that indenting wastes more time than that. If the idea was to make programs smaller I would wonder what were they smoking, an scripting language would never be good enough for big projects, and would be perfect for small ones. In other words the space saved by this idea is almost null.
If the idea was to make python unique, congratulations! You just have a unique language that has one of the worst syntax designs ever!.
Well I am not saying python sucks or anything I am just saying that I can't stand that kind of syntax - I am only talking for myself here.
All games are supposed to be addictive. The symptoms stated by the article sound more like the result of overdose. I would say that what makes WoW player play the game more than they should, even when their eyes are tired for example. Is the DARN MONTHLY FEE! . I met online guys that have the need to play WoW really frequently otherwise they feel like they are wasting their money. You have to accept that 12 $us for just a few hours per week is not worth it so you better extract all the juice of it.
I hope next "service" games have an hourly fee instead of monthly, I really do
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Decent language? The whole idea that some words are offensive or dirty and some aren't is kind of lame and actually far from any intellectual insight. What matters is the use you give to words and in this case Fucking cheap is a really good term to use cause it highlights the fact that there is a major cost difference and that South African schools would rather spend less.
Well I would like both formats to lose absurdly. But I guess that there are 2 things required for a consumer to actually buy one of these players:
- Get money for the HD tv.
- Get money for the player
- Get time to inform yourself about them.
- Wait until enough reviews are out so at least you have a clue which format is better.
There are rather few comparissions out there and most of them didn't really use a good TV or are not fair or anything. The money is rather an important issue here cause you would have to get a player and a TV and both are not the cheapest items in the store. I would wait for christmas buying season before actually judging success, although I hope that both formats die.
I am dissapointed that they made a move towards the 'feature' from Opera I hate the most, the interface is ugly, it is a shame cause the one in the alpha version was excellent. I just cannot understand this change. I hope I can change this easily.
I am still using firefox 2 alpha (Bon Echo) Should try later, but this one (bon echo) has to be the most stable firefox version ever. Even the exploit that worked on 1.5.0.6 didn't work here.
Isn't this comment insightful? How many hardcore gamers do you know out there? And how much of the market involves them? Does a console success depends on hardcore gamers buying it? Or does it depends on enough sold products? Also these guys said that they won't buy it in the release date, and did not seem to mean that they will not ever buy it.
Hey, but you could say the same about the whole internet user population.
Actually, it points out what people already know: Corporations and businesses use Windows PCs. Windows for many is Word and Excel. And almost everyone who has used a Windows PC at work has hated it at some point
It would be the same for any OS, wouldn't it? If they used a mac in corporations they would be most likelly to work and not to have a good time. Even if someone releases a "fun os" I'll probably hate it that tries to make my work 'funnier' by popping out rainbows on me while I work.
Programs with odd names performing illegal operations and offering them the change to debug, only to do nothing useful. And so on.
I dislike FUD, even if it is against windows, it would be odd that those misterious programs from nowhere appear while they are at work, and if they are at home well the user was most likelly looking for it to happen. It is not like Mac has an anti odd name policy or if it doesn't have exception handling in their programs.
The Mac is being shown in the light of being a computer for your home life, far away from spreadsheets and Active Directory, where your photos, home movies, and music play a much stronger role, and showing ease-of-use for doing nice things with that media.
All right, 2 things that Macs can't do: Play most of the newest games and Play movies in the latest formats without downloading a media player which is what you would call "evil configuration". How would they be more of a home life computer than a PC? I am using a PC for my home life computer and do not have any complaint yet ,and unlike what you seem to think windows is in no way forcing me to use Spreadsheets
Remember that the majority of new Windows PC owners buy an OEM machine and can barely plug in all the color-coded cables. They turn it on and the Windows setup wizard starts as you said. Fine. Now your OEM machine is detecting the 3-in-one inkjet-scanner-fax printer that came bundled free with the computer. Windows is now pompting them to install three items it has detected. Each one throwing up the New hardware wizard. Not to mention the computer's system image was from 4 months ago, so they need to download 55MB of patches on their dial-up connection in order to be "safe".
You see, the majority of new comp owners just pay someone to configure their stuff, and if more people used macs the dumb majority would also have problems with them and have someone paid to do that stuff.
I am happy with my PC Kubuntu - windows XP combo, it is really fast, works as an entertainment center, can do anything from playing the latest games to doing my homework, developing php web sites or c++ programs pretty well. In fact this comp is a home life computer and is very effective at that, so I have a name for this kind advertising: FUD. I 'd like to see advertisements that actually tell me why should I buy a computer instead of just trying to make me believe my PC is not fun enough for me.
Copyleft, Open Source and a lot of Linux' philosophy are really incompatible with the Media companies, I guess they would have moved to Mac.
I actually think that the death of HD is more likelly to happen than linux getting more users than windows because of this. It is a pity but users would't move away so easily even if the linux developer manage to reverse engineer the HD protection and allow to play movies corectly. I think it would be easier for the users to keep buying DVDs, it is not like there is much noticieable improvement on HD-DVD , specially with most TVs not having enough resolution. It is also not likelly the media companies are able to instantly stop the production of DVDs and move to the HD alternatives.
Are you a bot or something retarded like that? Are you comparing Mac with a 2001 version of redhat? What the heck?
Why does everybody come up with crazy theories like firefox using 800MB? I seriously have never seen it go above 100 which is high but it is not as bad as some people believe, In fact I am more likelly to believe that people read 80MB as 800 or are exaggerating their experience in order to sound more right (which is ridiculous btw)
How to install VLC media player on kubuntu:
.deb packages and how to use apt-get.
.exe or .msi file and double click. Which is not too different from downloading .deb package and using the context menu to install. Of course the difference lies with the number of requisites that it might have. Windows applications would mostly not have any requirement or use .NET in the case of linux dependency hell is something you live with.
.msi.
* Press the K at the bottom that resembles the start menu
* Go to system tools and select Adept package manager.
* Insert your password
* Use the search box to type VLC
* Click the install button
* Start the download and installation progress.
It is not that difficult.
I was able to survive on ubuntu with apt based managers (synaptic / adept) , for those applications that didn't have packages (which are not really for the average user but for the geek that wants to try stuff not from canonical) I just had to investigate the web for installation instructions. I eventually got able to learn how to install
In the case of windows. You download an
But distributions latelly try to come with the most used libraries already installed and the rest of libraries seem to focus on making packages or have people making packages.
But I'd like to state that installation of software in linux is slowly getting less painful. You gotta watch the new installers available that do not use packages but come in the shape of a binary that has a bash script in the top and use an interface to install everything needed. An strategy game called glest used it and it was a lot like just using an
As terrorists, their objective is to cause terror. Although their final objective is total destruction, affecting occident's lifestyle and keeping them afraid and aware of their thread is a won battle for them. As long as they have altered your lifestyle and get you on the defensive they are currently in control of the situation, cause your government seems to be good at limiting your own rights instead of defending your country against them.
I would agree on the other points but sudo works all right for me, if I ever want to keep the root permissions for a good while (which happens rarely) sudo has an argument that allows a fake login as root. Otherwise it is faster than logging in as root just to make install
8 year olds should NEVER be put in a situation where they would need a cell phone.
It is not like the parents would actually want that to happen, but consider the odds, moments when kids need to contact their parents do happen. I would find it hard to believe that yourself never were in such a situation, which with enough bad luck and the right circumstances could have ended badly.
Think of the children! Caps lock is used by many games as a toggleable control!
Huh? News? Doesn't the word expert comes from experience? How could anybody be born with experience?
It doesn't really matter, does it? They developed the software and they decide what license to use, it doesn't matter if their reasons are bad, foolish or whatever they have the right to choose.
I for one, don't think that they want to stop war with this but they just wouldn't like the idea of their work to be used in a war
When I first learned about php I read about XSS and SQL injection, I thought that sanitizing output/content to be used in queries was security 099 . I eventually got surprised that not even the big ones care enough about this. Google had an XSS exploit (although it was fixed the same day it was announced), Other sites that youtube, nsa , and msn got XSS flaws recently as well.
That statement is certainly wrong to me, at least as a generalization, a great counter example would be microsoft.
Try a search engine that does not log your searches. Although that might be hard to find, if you are uncomfortable with google's methods, you don't have to do any proxy magic, you can just try another site, that's the reason competition is good for the user, isn't it?
But Ajax makes it so you only download the updated information instead of a whole page with all the layout and previous information, so it is still better, specially for those without broadband connection - as long as a "Please wait - updating" message or something like that is shown at the time of updating.
Someguys release automatic exploit script once a vulnerability is found, then they release it on sites that are full of script kiddies.
I would never understand python and making it indent-dependant ruined the language in my opinion, lack of block begin/close is just lame and makes the stuff harder to read besides it goes against one of the main principles of programming . Programs must have an start and an end.
I actually think that if anything it makes things harder to read. For an scripting language that is supposed to be easy then specific begin and end blocks for different kinds of statements are always a good idea. So you know that "that while is finishing just after that if finishes" instead of "I see two }} , I'll have to scroll up to figure out what they are closing" or "I see that statements are not so on the right anymore I wonder what actually finished here".
If the idea behind that was saving time then it probably has some credit but how much time is that anyways? I also thing that indenting wastes more time than that. If the idea was to make programs smaller I would wonder what were they smoking, an scripting language would never be good enough for big projects, and would be perfect for small ones. In other words the space saved by this idea is almost null.
If the idea was to make python unique, congratulations! You just have a unique language that has one of the worst syntax designs ever!.
Well I am not saying python sucks or anything I am just saying that I can't stand that kind of syntax - I am only talking for myself here.
All games are supposed to be addictive. The symptoms stated by the article sound more like the result of overdose. I would say that what makes WoW player play the game more than they should, even when their eyes are tired for example. Is the DARN MONTHLY FEE! . I met online guys that have the need to play WoW really frequently otherwise they feel like they are wasting their money. You have to accept that 12 $us for just a few hours per week is not worth it so you better extract all the juice of it.
I hope next "service" games have an hourly fee instead of monthly, I really do