I was under the impression that legal punishment was in place in order to keep people from getting hurt, not a sadistic need to see more people hurt. (Maybe I'm just naive.) Pushing someone does not cure or revive the victim. If she gets away with what should be a crime but isn't - let her, just change the laws to punish what you believe should be the crime, not just anything to satisfying your (understandable) sadism in this one instance. It is not worth setting a precedent which will only cause more people to be harmed.
I know you were joking, but: (1) You can tell Firefox you'll restart later AND IT LISTENS TO YOU. You don't have to worry about it restarting randomly in the middle of a Counter Strike league match or some such. (2) When Firefox restarts, you're given nearly the same situation you left it in. Worst comes to worst you have to re-find where your youtube video was. When Windows restarts you're left crying 'cuz you're out for the season. (Yes, a few years back Windows did restarting during a CAL match. No, it didn't cost us the match: I sucked to much to make a difference - we'd have lost either way:D)
Firefox was the single greatest tool for me to use to help people realize there's options other than Windows and OSX. On Linux or BSD: "Oh wow, it's exactly the same!" I've even run across a fair few people who are familiar with VLC or pidgin or maybe some other solid F/OSS program to show them that trying something that isn't made by MS or Apple doesn't mean it's going to be completely different or foreign or difficult. If KDE stuff spreads onto Windows and OSX as you're predicting, as unintuitive as it sounds, it'll be a boon for Linux and BSD and Solaris and all the other goodies:D
Yes, for when I am in X I use xmodmap. However I spend a fair chunk of time without X, so I have to make custom keymaps. Not too hard, but a tad more work. Either way Capslock -> ESC = awesome. The majority of the time with my eeepc is spent in class taking notes. The resolution of my eeepc doesn't give me sufficiently more space with X than without it for typing in vi, nor do any other features really help much. However, I've found I can get a solid hour more battery power by killing nearly everything. No X, USB, WLAN, etc - no need honestly when I'm in class typing notes. All I need is vi and remapped key layout and battery to last me through all my classes.
Arg, you beat me to it. I wouldn't cite emacs as a solution for the awkward keyboards - my fingers would twist over each other to get the now even more cramped ctrl/alt/etc, but vi is beautiful for such things. Your fingers never have to stray far from the home row, and you don't need any of those awkwardly re-arranged/shaped keys. No need for the at times awkward touchpad. Just rebind esc to the caps lock key and learn the position of the number keys on the main part of the keyboard (ie, no number pad), and once you've gotten used to vi (admittedly it's weird at first) those keyboards won't be a bother at all. I've found I type faster on my eeepc with vi than I do on a fullsized keyboard in a "traditional" text editor/word processor. My fingers get tired faster, though - for extended typing sessions, with or without vi, a full-sized keyboard is definitely preferred.
I was really excited when I first heard about the eeepc - I was hoping it'd pull the market more or less in the direction it did. Relatively inexpensive, small, light, but still a fully-functioning computer. My single favorite feature of the eeepc was the flash drive - I don't have to worry about kicking it around nearly as much. *All* of my past laptops have had harddrive trouble, presumably because I don't treat them correctly, yet my eeepc is still running strong after getting more of a beatting than I usually dish out. I don't mind the slightly larger size of the next generation of sub notebooks that are now coming out, and I guess I can understand the increased price, but why the mechanical HDDs? Windows? The 4GB is more than enough for a Linux or BSD (minus ports) install, with some extra room in the SD slot for any music/movies/whatever you'd like to bring along. Asus was nice enough to offer a 20GB version with flash - more than enough for what I'd want a sub notebook for. I don't see myself needing a replacement for my eeepc anytime soon, but I'm disappointed to see the direction things are going in. Am I the only one who's bummed about this? Am I missing something?
While I agree with the rest of your post, I don't quite agree with the idea of screwing your bookstore. Feel free to screw someone a tad more directly involved - the part-time kid trying to pay off his own overpriced, unnecessary texts is going to feel the burn for the screw up; the corrupt professor isn't going to care. Consider: Someone needs a techie's help. They *require* a certain application to work that only works on Windows - so the techie offers to install windows for him. Is it fair to screw the techie because Windows sucsk? Err, computers? Sorry, I mean cars... something with cars.
Rather than specifically Vista or Windows 7, I'm curious what will happen with win64 vs win32. There was speculation - that later proved false - about Vista being 64bit-only. Even if Windows7 still has a popular 32bit version, 32bit (Windows) OS's are likely to slowly be replaced by 64bit ones. Is WINE going to work on win64 DLLs?
Historically nVidia's linux drivers absolutely crushed ATi's, giving nVidia quite a bit of momentum with the part of Linux crowd that would take advantage of greater-than-Intel graphics cards. If AMD starts getting some momentum nVidia may have a reason to even consider doing something more for their Linux consumers. It'll be a while yet.
No one (competent) claims that the fact the source is open alone makes it 100% guaranteed to be secure. Debian's done a wonderful job of reminding everyone of this not to long ago. However it does increase the chance that any problems - purposeful or otherwise - are caught sooner than if no source code was available to anyone but the original coders. Debian's done a wonderful job of reminding everyone of this, too. Open source software is more likely to be secure with more eyes looking at the code, but nothing is guaranteed. Even so, security's not the only advantage of open source. For example, I don't have to wait for the original developers to fix a bug - if it's worth the time and/or money I could go ahead and do it myself or pay someone else to do it.
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Ubuntu's more popular than Xandros. If you are still new to linux and want some help their forums etc are wonderful. With that in mind: (1) It can be a bit of a pain - especially for much of Ubuntu's less-than-super-savvy audience - to do things such as get the eeepc's wifi up or get the fn keys to work from an official ubuntu install. (2) The eee doesn't have an optical disk drive, knocking out a rather popular option for installing an OS. (3) Ubuntu's defaults, even xubuntu, aren't fit for such a small screen. Probably others I haven't thought off, too.
While he did use "ansible" in a number of his books, Orson Scott Card wasn't certainly was not the first to come up with the idea, and he wasn't the one who coined the term. The OP is correct.
"Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is "right" or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law." -- Linus Torvalds
First off, that's a "map" of "online communities." Even if it were somehow a relevant source it's completely overlooking things such as operating systems or search engines. Both MS and Yahoo! have their fingers in quite a few pies. Second, the fact/.ers often have fun playing lawyer or businessman and tend to have strong views in these regards does not somehow weaken those with experience and expertise who happen to agree with/.ers.
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2005-January/016730.html
Just limit wine to your ~/.wine/drive_c folder so. Should you catch a windows virus, it can't do anymore harm then messing up that one folder.
I've purposefully tried to get my wine directory owned before - wine is getting pretty good, 'cuz I succeeded(ish):D
Don't know about fixing that kind of thing with some AV, I just deleted the folder and copied everything from backups, as one usually would with a VM.
Honestly, would Apple care? Whenever a discussion on/. comes up on why Apple does not allow OSX on non-Apple hardware there are usually at least a few posts pointing out that Apple is a hardware company which just uses software as a means to further hardware sales. It's not as though Apple does not want people getting a taste of a non-Apple OS (as Microsoft would abhor); Apple has pointed out in its mac vs PC commercials that their hardware will also run Windows. I cannot see them going out of their way to see machines without their OS, but I fail to find sufficient reason for them to fight it if The Man said they had to.
If there's no technical reason not to allow both options with a simple option in a menu somewhere, then yes it is ridiculous. If there is some downside to allowing users to resize the text input area then a fork is exactly what is needed. Open source is awesome.
The movie was "Double Jeopardy." While it made for an interesting plot for a movie their interpretation of the constitutional right is off. The idea is you can't be tried for the same exact crime - not a similar and closely related crime which could not have happened if the original accusation was actually true. If Hans did kill Nina double jeopardy would keep him from being tried for it again as soon as he got out. While the idea of re-punishing someone seems silly it's good to have it in writing to limit abuse. IANAL
Sure, my handwriting is legible if I have time. When I'm in a rush to scribble down what the professor is mumbling about before he heads off onto another tangent, it is not unusual for my work to be difficult to read. Additionally I have a habit of losing loose sheets of papers, or having them torn. I type far faster than I write, and it's always legible. It's easy to organize things with copy/cut/paste. It's trivial to make backups. I can pull up any note I took down instantly rather than rummaging through my notebook(s). If I forget my homework in the printer tray I can e-mail it as soon as it is mentioned in class. My grades have been consistently better since I got my eeepc.
I do not like that mentality at all. The teacher should present all the relevant information he or she can during the time provided with the students. If the teacher is more knowledgeable in a given subject matter than I am, it would be blind of me to keep this new information away from my children, even if it contradicts the status quo. The issue is whether or not the students are being taught things which can be scientifically proven with empirical evidence and what not. Should a teacher be able to provide a sound argument against evolution within the rigid confines of science it should not only be acceptable it should be encouraged. Science is not just the name of another religion - given new information , or even new insight on old information, it is expected to change. Arguments against the currently accepted scientific stance on a matter are not blasphemous. I want my kids to believe the Earth is flat because thats the way I was brought up and it's obvious if you look at the sky, right? Any evidence and teachers - against that should be shunned, right?
With a few necessary exceptions, that stuff wasn't his own original writing. It was his farther's, who (thanks largely to his perfectionism) couldn't get it far enough along to publish during his lifetime. His son simply organized everything and added the final touches to get it to print. If it wasn't for the usually ridiculous copyright length much of this would not have made it onto my shelf. If someone could have done a better job than JRR Tolkien at writing JRR Tolkien's stuff, I'm doubtful that person would not be skillful enough to come up with other successful works without needed to leech of what JRR has done. This is one of the few areas the copyright length is beneficial to the public at large.
Chris Tolkien has done quite a lot with the copyright. On the shelf right behind me I have The Hobbit, LOTR, and Tree and Leaf (only one not 'bout Middle Earth) all by JRR. However there's another fourteen more books on the shelf all published after Tolkien's death (I'm probably missing some, too). Typically I agree with you in this regard, but in this case (as well as my shelf above it which still continues to grow thanks to Frank Herbert's son) the copyright really is being put to good use. It'd have been a horrific shame if it wasn't feasible to publish the Silmarillion or Sandworms of Dune.
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Yeah, you got lucky there. I'm not so lucky: my parents didn't have the forethought to give me the same name as the alias I'd use two decades later.
I was under the impression that legal punishment was in place in order to keep people from getting hurt, not a sadistic need to see more people hurt. (Maybe I'm just naive.) Pushing someone does not cure or revive the victim. If she gets away with what should be a crime but isn't - let her, just change the laws to punish what you believe should be the crime, not just anything to satisfying your (understandable) sadism in this one instance. It is not worth setting a precedent which will only cause more people to be harmed.
I know you were joking, but: (1) You can tell Firefox you'll restart later AND IT LISTENS TO YOU. You don't have to worry about it restarting randomly in the middle of a Counter Strike league match or some such. (2) When Firefox restarts, you're given nearly the same situation you left it in. Worst comes to worst you have to re-find where your youtube video was. When Windows restarts you're left crying 'cuz you're out for the season. (Yes, a few years back Windows did restarting during a CAL match. No, it didn't cost us the match: I sucked to much to make a difference - we'd have lost either way :D)
Firefox was the single greatest tool for me to use to help people realize there's options other than Windows and OSX. On Linux or BSD: "Oh wow, it's exactly the same!" I've even run across a fair few people who are familiar with VLC or pidgin or maybe some other solid F/OSS program to show them that trying something that isn't made by MS or Apple doesn't mean it's going to be completely different or foreign or difficult. If KDE stuff spreads onto Windows and OSX as you're predicting, as unintuitive as it sounds, it'll be a boon for Linux and BSD and Solaris and all the other goodies :D
Yes, for when I am in X I use xmodmap. However I spend a fair chunk of time without X, so I have to make custom keymaps. Not too hard, but a tad more work. Either way Capslock -> ESC = awesome. The majority of the time with my eeepc is spent in class taking notes. The resolution of my eeepc doesn't give me sufficiently more space with X than without it for typing in vi, nor do any other features really help much. However, I've found I can get a solid hour more battery power by killing nearly everything. No X, USB, WLAN, etc - no need honestly when I'm in class typing notes. All I need is vi and remapped key layout and battery to last me through all my classes.
Arg, you beat me to it. I wouldn't cite emacs as a solution for the awkward keyboards - my fingers would twist over each other to get the now even more cramped ctrl/alt/etc, but vi is beautiful for such things. Your fingers never have to stray far from the home row, and you don't need any of those awkwardly re-arranged/shaped keys. No need for the at times awkward touchpad. Just rebind esc to the caps lock key and learn the position of the number keys on the main part of the keyboard (ie, no number pad), and once you've gotten used to vi (admittedly it's weird at first) those keyboards won't be a bother at all. I've found I type faster on my eeepc with vi than I do on a fullsized keyboard in a "traditional" text editor/word processor. My fingers get tired faster, though - for extended typing sessions, with or without vi, a full-sized keyboard is definitely preferred.
I was really excited when I first heard about the eeepc - I was hoping it'd pull the market more or less in the direction it did. Relatively inexpensive, small, light, but still a fully-functioning computer. My single favorite feature of the eeepc was the flash drive - I don't have to worry about kicking it around nearly as much. *All* of my past laptops have had harddrive trouble, presumably because I don't treat them correctly, yet my eeepc is still running strong after getting more of a beatting than I usually dish out. I don't mind the slightly larger size of the next generation of sub notebooks that are now coming out, and I guess I can understand the increased price, but why the mechanical HDDs? Windows? The 4GB is more than enough for a Linux or BSD (minus ports) install, with some extra room in the SD slot for any music/movies/whatever you'd like to bring along. Asus was nice enough to offer a 20GB version with flash - more than enough for what I'd want a sub notebook for. I don't see myself needing a replacement for my eeepc anytime soon, but I'm disappointed to see the direction things are going in. Am I the only one who's bummed about this? Am I missing something?
While I agree with the rest of your post, I don't quite agree with the idea of screwing your bookstore. Feel free to screw someone a tad more directly involved - the part-time kid trying to pay off his own overpriced, unnecessary texts is going to feel the burn for the screw up; the corrupt professor isn't going to care. Consider: Someone needs a techie's help. They *require* a certain application to work that only works on Windows - so the techie offers to install windows for him. Is it fair to screw the techie because Windows sucsk? Err, computers? Sorry, I mean cars... something with cars.
Rather than specifically Vista or Windows 7, I'm curious what will happen with win64 vs win32. There was speculation - that later proved false - about Vista being 64bit-only. Even if Windows7 still has a popular 32bit version, 32bit (Windows) OS's are likely to slowly be replaced by 64bit ones. Is WINE going to work on win64 DLLs?
Historically nVidia's linux drivers absolutely crushed ATi's, giving nVidia quite a bit of momentum with the part of Linux crowd that would take advantage of greater-than-Intel graphics cards. If AMD starts getting some momentum nVidia may have a reason to even consider doing something more for their Linux consumers. It'll be a while yet.
No one (competent) claims that the fact the source is open alone makes it 100% guaranteed to be secure. Debian's done a wonderful job of reminding everyone of this not to long ago. However it does increase the chance that any problems - purposeful or otherwise - are caught sooner than if no source code was available to anyone but the original coders. Debian's done a wonderful job of reminding everyone of this, too. Open source software is more likely to be secure with more eyes looking at the code, but nothing is guaranteed. Even so, security's not the only advantage of open source. For example, I don't have to wait for the original developers to fix a bug - if it's worth the time and/or money I could go ahead and do it myself or pay someone else to do it.
Ubuntu's more popular than Xandros. If you are still new to linux and want some help their forums etc are wonderful. With that in mind: (1) It can be a bit of a pain - especially for much of Ubuntu's less-than-super-savvy audience - to do things such as get the eeepc's wifi up or get the fn keys to work from an official ubuntu install. (2) The eee doesn't have an optical disk drive, knocking out a rather popular option for installing an OS. (3) Ubuntu's defaults, even xubuntu, aren't fit for such a small screen. Probably others I haven't thought off, too.
While he did use "ansible" in a number of his books, Orson Scott Card wasn't certainly was not the first to come up with the idea, and he wasn't the one who coined the term. The OP is correct.
"Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is "right" or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law." -- Linus Torvalds
First off, that's a "map" of "online communities." Even if it were somehow a relevant source it's completely overlooking things such as operating systems or search engines. Both MS and Yahoo! have their fingers in quite a few pies. Second, the fact /.ers often have fun playing lawyer or businessman and tend to have strong views in these regards does not somehow weaken those with experience and expertise who happen to agree with /.ers.
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2005-January/016730.html Just limit wine to your ~/.wine/drive_c folder so. Should you catch a windows virus, it can't do anymore harm then messing up that one folder. I've purposefully tried to get my wine directory owned before - wine is getting pretty good, 'cuz I succeeded(ish) :D
Don't know about fixing that kind of thing with some AV, I just deleted the folder and copied everything from backups, as one usually would with a VM.
Honestly, would Apple care? Whenever a discussion on /. comes up on why Apple does not allow OSX on non-Apple hardware there are usually at least a few posts pointing out that Apple is a hardware company which just uses software as a means to further hardware sales. It's not as though Apple does not want people getting a taste of a non-Apple OS (as Microsoft would abhor); Apple has pointed out in its mac vs PC commercials that their hardware will also run Windows. I cannot see them going out of their way to see machines without their OS, but I fail to find sufficient reason for them to fight it if The Man said they had to.
If there's no technical reason not to allow both options with a simple option in a menu somewhere, then yes it is ridiculous. If there is some downside to allowing users to resize the text input area then a fork is exactly what is needed. Open source is awesome.
The movie was "Double Jeopardy." While it made for an interesting plot for a movie their interpretation of the constitutional right is off. The idea is you can't be tried for the same exact crime - not a similar and closely related crime which could not have happened if the original accusation was actually true. If Hans did kill Nina double jeopardy would keep him from being tried for it again as soon as he got out. While the idea of re-punishing someone seems silly it's good to have it in writing to limit abuse. IANAL
Sure, my handwriting is legible if I have time. When I'm in a rush to scribble down what the professor is mumbling about before he heads off onto another tangent, it is not unusual for my work to be difficult to read. Additionally I have a habit of losing loose sheets of papers, or having them torn. I type far faster than I write, and it's always legible. It's easy to organize things with copy/cut/paste. It's trivial to make backups. I can pull up any note I took down instantly rather than rummaging through my notebook(s). If I forget my homework in the printer tray I can e-mail it as soon as it is mentioned in class. My grades have been consistently better since I got my eeepc.
I do not like that mentality at all. The teacher should present all the relevant information he or she can during the time provided with the students. If the teacher is more knowledgeable in a given subject matter than I am, it would be blind of me to keep this new information away from my children, even if it contradicts the status quo. The issue is whether or not the students are being taught things which can be scientifically proven with empirical evidence and what not. Should a teacher be able to provide a sound argument against evolution within the rigid confines of science it should not only be acceptable it should be encouraged. Science is not just the name of another religion - given new information , or even new insight on old information, it is expected to change. Arguments against the currently accepted scientific stance on a matter are not blasphemous. I want my kids to believe the Earth is flat because thats the way I was brought up and it's obvious if you look at the sky, right? Any evidence and teachers - against that should be shunned, right?
With a few necessary exceptions, that stuff wasn't his own original writing. It was his farther's, who (thanks largely to his perfectionism) couldn't get it far enough along to publish during his lifetime. His son simply organized everything and added the final touches to get it to print. If it wasn't for the usually ridiculous copyright length much of this would not have made it onto my shelf. If someone could have done a better job than JRR Tolkien at writing JRR Tolkien's stuff, I'm doubtful that person would not be skillful enough to come up with other successful works without needed to leech of what JRR has done. This is one of the few areas the copyright length is beneficial to the public at large.
Ohhh I see it. Silly slashdot title. "First Organic Elements Found on Alien World" Better? No?
Chris Tolkien has done quite a lot with the copyright. On the shelf right behind me I have The Hobbit, LOTR, and Tree and Leaf (only one not 'bout Middle Earth) all by JRR. However there's another fourteen more books on the shelf all published after Tolkien's death (I'm probably missing some, too). Typically I agree with you in this regard, but in this case (as well as my shelf above it which still continues to grow thanks to Frank Herbert's son) the copyright really is being put to good use. It'd have been a horrific shame if it wasn't feasible to publish the Silmarillion or Sandworms of Dune.