1. Freedom from political correctness, which seems to be strong among Ubuntu followers. All these Nelson Mandelas etc...:)
2. YAST. What can be said? Only on the SUSE I could easily install soundfonts for my audiocard, set up a SAMBA or NFS shares for home network, configure scanner. bluetooth interface for my cellphone, set up rules for firewall. All of this is doable by console, of course - but I have too little time to play an admin to my one personal computer. I just like setting up such things quickly.
3. Installation. The installer for Ubuntu is simple. Too simple actually. I like to add crypto partitions during installation. Suse installer lets me do it.
4. KDE. KDE implementation on Kubuntu is a weak one. Ubuntu is gnome-centric, and in my country KDE is way more popular. Suse-style menu for KDE is fantastic and in 10.3 local system search through Beagle is very fast. And now there are KDE4 packages in the distro...
5. Non-OSS packages on the DVD: Its good to have Flash, Java, ICC profiles, WiFi drivers working out of box.
6. Multimedia support - MP3 build-in, other codecs installed by a few clicks.
And most importantly - stability. Since my installation of 10.3, and rather intensive usage, nothing from userland had crashed. With Kubuntu 7.04 I had some issues.
I believe these are enough to judge OpenSUSE as better distro than Ubuntu.
I've just installed a new OpenSUSE. All these little bugs from previous releases are gone. Yast software installer finally works with a good speed. Desktop responsiveness is amazing - KDE 3.7 works faster than GUI of Windows 2000. The default green artwork is very nice and gives a distinct feeling to this distro. Hardware detection is very good. My graphic card - nvidia 7600 and audio card - Creative Audigy 2 were working out of the box. Even installation of ADSL modem was a breeze - it is a cheap Sagem modem, used by the all telcos controlled by France Telecom, and most linux distros has problems with it.
What is especially important to people in countries with stupid law (read USA) - OpenSUSE gives you mp3 playback out of box, due to legal fluendo gstreamer plugins. In addition, there are provided Flash 9, newest Java runtimes, RealPlayer and seamless Wi-Fi support.
In the last year I've tried quite a few linux distros - Fedora, Ubuntu, Sabayon, Mint, Mandriva... nothing even come close to the OpenSUSE. Quality of Deutsch engineering.
I have to ask, is there something new with the file dialog requester? I was once a gnome user, but after few hours with KDE I promised myself never going back to this ugly GNOME file requesters.
A few years ago I had a dog, german shepard with serious regular eyelid inflammation. A friend of my mother, a homeopathy practicioner with some local fame gave me a mixture of some homeopathic drops. After two weeks of using it on the dog, the inflammation was gone and never returned.
Of course you can say - placebo effect. But do you really think that the dog believed in the power of these drops? Or maybe it was my belief which cured the dog? In either case, the homeopathy isn't so easily rejected as alleopathy practicioners would like.
Do I have moral rights to see these logs?
Do I have moral rights to judge other people fetishes?
Do I have moral rights to report others to the goverment forces?
Of course you can answer to yourself "yes" in all these cases.
But your answer doesn't make this problem any less ethical dilemma.
I for example, can answer only "no". Maybe because here in MittelEuropa, cooperation with regime forces never was taken lightly. We know pleasures of totalitarism and societies build upon the nets of informers, spying on each other.
Try to ask a mathematicians about their beliefs. You need to be thoroughly initiated to understand their religion.
Not everything could be shown to the profane. Only the trivial religions, like Baptism, are simple enough to be grokked by anyone. More advanced religions were always a initiation cults, since the first pythagorean sects.
In these times many people from Mitteleuropa fare to Russia for work and bread. Economically Russia became a very strong player since end of Jeltsin era.
You Americans have way too powerful judiciary system. With the ability to make law-on-the fly, all kind of stupidity could pass outside the proper legislatory path. How even it could be possible for incompetent persons to judge in cases outside their field of expertise? The law system in my country is far from being perfect, but we never had so stupid judgements as it is commonly heard in USA.
the age of the Universe is also not sufficient for organic life to be created in a distant environment. What if the universe has no beginning? We can only say something about observable, local structures of cosmos. In the eternal universe, where panspermia is a regular phenomenon, you have all the time you need.
Also there is a problem with complexity: without any other self-organizing structures to compare it is at least problematic to declare living creatures "complex". Maybe somewhere in the universe are structures with greater level of complexity?
Paris in the year 2000 will be covered by two meter high horse crap.
Futurology is very risky business. Prophecies about the state of possible future technologies based on contemporary knowledge are usually not much worth, in best cases, and utmost crap in the worst ones.
Maybe it is time to stop thinking about children?
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Child pornography is a kind of lame excuse to invoke censorship. Most interest in such stuff is generated by illegality of it: quite a lot of the people like using/having illegal stuff just for the thrill of doing something illegal.
But actually, child porn is very boring in comparison to the contemporary adult porn. If legalized, it will quickly disappear, or become fringe activity, but will be no more stupid excuse.
You have to think about children? No, you don't have. You have to think about your freedom of thought. Children are in no way more important than adult people, and taking our rights because it could be harmful to them seems both silly and evil.
You should try downloading only files published on popular torrent or ed2k sites. With proper hash identifier and its reviews from people who downloaded it already, there is no chance to download fake or corrupt files.
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Actually parent is right. There were no rape report from anyone. Who are the alleged victims? Do they testify against someone?
1. Freedom from political correctness, which seems to be strong among Ubuntu followers. All these Nelson Mandelas etc... :)
2. YAST. What can be said? Only on the SUSE I could easily install soundfonts for my audiocard, set up a SAMBA or NFS shares for home network, configure scanner. bluetooth interface for my cellphone, set up rules for firewall. All of this is doable by console, of course - but I have too little time to play an admin to my one personal computer. I just like setting up such things quickly.
3. Installation. The installer for Ubuntu is simple. Too simple actually. I like to add crypto partitions during installation. Suse installer lets me do it.
4. KDE. KDE implementation on Kubuntu is a weak one. Ubuntu is gnome-centric, and in my country KDE is way more popular. Suse-style menu for KDE is fantastic and in 10.3 local system search through Beagle is very fast. And now there are KDE4 packages in the distro...
5. Non-OSS packages on the DVD: Its good to have Flash, Java, ICC profiles, WiFi drivers working out of box.
6. Multimedia support - MP3 build-in, other codecs installed by a few clicks.
And most importantly - stability. Since my installation of 10.3, and rather intensive usage, nothing from userland had crashed. With Kubuntu 7.04 I had some issues.
I believe these are enough to judge OpenSUSE as better distro than Ubuntu.
Not true. There is a gst-fluendo-mp3-2.7.rpm package on the goldmaster DVD. MP3 playback works out of the box. Eat this, american law system.
I've just installed a new OpenSUSE. All these little bugs from previous releases are gone. Yast software installer finally works with a good speed. Desktop responsiveness is amazing - KDE 3.7 works faster than GUI of Windows 2000. The default green artwork is very nice and gives a distinct feeling to this distro. Hardware detection is very good. My graphic card - nvidia 7600 and audio card - Creative Audigy 2 were working out of the box. Even installation of ADSL modem was a breeze - it is a cheap Sagem modem, used by the all telcos controlled by France Telecom, and most linux distros has problems with it.
What is especially important to people in countries with stupid law (read USA) - OpenSUSE gives you mp3 playback out of box, due to legal fluendo gstreamer plugins. In addition, there are provided Flash 9, newest Java runtimes, RealPlayer and seamless Wi-Fi support.
In the last year I've tried quite a few linux distros - Fedora, Ubuntu, Sabayon, Mint, Mandriva... nothing even come close to the OpenSUSE. Quality of Deutsch engineering.
I have to ask, is there something new with the file dialog requester? I was once a gnome user, but after few hours with KDE I promised myself never going back to this ugly GNOME file requesters.
A few years ago I had a dog, german shepard with serious regular eyelid inflammation. A friend of my mother, a homeopathy practicioner with some local fame gave me a mixture of some homeopathic drops. After two weeks of using it on the dog, the inflammation was gone and never returned.
Of course you can say - placebo effect. But do you really think that the dog believed in the power of these drops? Or maybe it was my belief which cured the dog? In either case, the homeopathy isn't so easily rejected as alleopathy practicioners would like.
Do I have moral rights to see these logs? Do I have moral rights to judge other people fetishes? Do I have moral rights to report others to the goverment forces?
Of course you can answer to yourself "yes" in all these cases. But your answer doesn't make this problem any less ethical dilemma.
I for example, can answer only "no". Maybe because here in MittelEuropa, cooperation with regime forces never was taken lightly. We know pleasures of totalitarism and societies build upon the nets of informers, spying on each other.
Try to ask a mathematicians about their beliefs. You need to be thoroughly initiated to understand their religion. Not everything could be shown to the profane. Only the trivial religions, like Baptism, are simple enough to be grokked by anyone. More advanced religions were always a initiation cults, since the first pythagorean sects.
In these times many people from Mitteleuropa fare to Russia for work and bread. Economically Russia became a very strong player since end of Jeltsin era.
You Americans have way too powerful judiciary system. With the ability to make law-on-the fly, all kind of stupidity could pass outside the proper legislatory path. How even it could be possible for incompetent persons to judge in cases outside their field of expertise? The law system in my country is far from being perfect, but we never had so stupid judgements as it is commonly heard in USA.
A good example for all politically correct lesbian feminists. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedor_Emelianenko. For every women you can find a men who is more powerful than her.
Paris in the year 2000 will be covered by two meter high horse crap.
Futurology is very risky business. Prophecies about the state of possible future technologies based on contemporary knowledge are usually not much worth, in best cases, and utmost crap in the worst ones.
Child pornography is a kind of lame excuse to invoke censorship. Most interest in such stuff is generated by illegality of it: quite a lot of the people like using/having illegal stuff just for the thrill of doing something illegal.
But actually, child porn is very boring in comparison to the contemporary adult porn. If legalized, it will quickly disappear, or become fringe activity, but will be no more stupid excuse.
You have to think about children? No, you don't have. You have to think about your freedom of thought. Children are in no way more important than adult people, and taking our rights because it could be harmful to them seems both silly and evil.