I may be wrong, but I think they have a 'hybrid':p transmission (the pilot decides with a button when to change gears, but all the actual mechanical switching is done the auto way).
First time I read a reason that made sense for for 'sudo' thing in Ubuntu.
Me, every time I installed Ubuntu, first thing I did was to setup a password for root. So much more confortable to go su than to have to type sudo for every freaking command.
If free software were to be made by (a) company(ies), it(they) would have been sunk by M$ monopolistic behavior.
It's only because OSS is mainly written by either volonteers or people paid by entities that don't directly compete with M$ that it has a fighting chance.
I don't really get how somepeople get stuck on the overall default Ubuntu's theme color.
My distro of choice is currently Mandriva, but it's nothing to do with the basic theme. There are plenty of things I could criticize Ubuntu for, but theme color, gee...
Come on, at least give them cookie points for being somewhat orginal (every other distro/os seem to be some kind of blue by default) and any changing it completely is just a couple of clicks away anyway.
Actually, I just found out that there's an area where inkjet outshine even high quality color laser.
Until now, after seing their output, I thought only either thermal printing or professionnal printing process were better, but I forgot the case when you're trying to print on (purposelly) uneven paper - I'm talking good quality thick invitations cards here.
On the laser, the first try looked mostly ok, but you could see a couple very tiny areas where the color toner hadn't stuck, and if I were to pass my finger over it(gently, mind you), it comes off, little by little. But the worst part is that the next printout has a trace of the previous one that obviously stayed stuck on one of the cylinders - it took 4 pages of normal paper to clean it up.
With the inkjet, no problem. It came out perfectly fine and the quality was good.
My regular distro is Mandriva, but I do have a partition available that allows me to test other distros every now and then.
When I do that, I want it to be thorough, so playing around for a couple of hours isn't enough. I have to test things out for a few days, which mean I can't not have access to all my files/mails and so on. Of course/home is separate partition.
What I do is make sure to create a user and a group with the same names and numbers as those in Mandriva (either during install or afterward, depending on what the install process allows).
For those who can't be bothered to read the man page (and don't have access to advanced enough graphical tools), the options --uid and --gid to adduser allow you to pick the id numbers.
First, the iTunes store is currently the most popular of the online music services
I really have to disagree with this one.
Regardless of legal/moral points, the (by far) most popular online music service is p2p download.
Itunes and other similar services are a rearguard fight of the various majors, at best. Luckily for Apple they got on that soon and appropriately enough to enjoy a huge cashflow from it, but if they expect that model to last in the long run (10+ years), I'm pretty sure they're in for a rude awakening.
As far as I know, within the world's rich countries, it's only in Australia and North America that people get screwed with their internet access. Pretty much everywhere else is reasonable and you don't have crasy notion such as download monthly cap and so on.
Well, I live in the countryside and I was converting from yens off the top of my head. I also include the price of the landline itself as I almost don't use it to make phone calls.
Well here in Japan I pay around $45 a month (modem rental included) for a 50M/s connection - mind you, if it was available where I live I'd get fiber at 100M/s.
Limits? What limits? I remember last year when a friend came over for a while. With both our computers on the same connection, we often downloaded around 6Go a day...
The JR (Japan Railways) Railpass is a one, two or three weeks pass that allows you to take pretty much any train (or boats) owned by JR for their duration with no further expense.
Considering the one week pass is almost the price of a round trip Tokyo/Kyoto (that takes two and a half hours one way), they're hugely interesting. Of course, only foreigners with visitor visa can buy them...
"How does someone being ten years old [...] make their behavior any different? The question is whether or not they did what was claimed."
Well, in most western countries, you are not considered responsible for your actions when you're only 10.
As for "[...] or someone being disabled and on social security make their behavior any different? The question is whether or not they did what was claimed. If they did, then why should someone be treated differently if they're on social security than if they're fully employed and working hard and paying taxes?" you're getting onto a very interesting point as to the validity of current copyrights' laws.
My question is such: if marginal costs of accessing any kind of copyrighted work (book, music, movie... You name it) is effectively reduced to 0 (which it is, when we're talking about downloading), isn't there a moral problem in preventing people from accessing cultural products because of their inability to pay the copyright holder what he/she/it asks?
They resurected him a few months back, the storyline being he's been around for we don't know how many years (but staying in the shadows as some kind of super ninja/spy)
I can't remember the number of times where I was looking for some obscure movie to download, and finally give up after searching for one hour.
Had such a service been available, I'd have happily forked over a couple of bucks for an hassle free process. Alas, I neither live in the US nor use windows (and plan on never doing either). That means the majors/studios won't see a cent of my money as long as they keep behaving like spoiled brats able only to say 'Mine, mine, gimme, gimme, gimme...'
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Last I heard, Europe's cars were 95% manual (if not more).
I may be wrong, but I think they have a 'hybrid' :p transmission (the pilot decides with a button when to change gears, but all the actual mechanical switching is done the auto way).
First time I read a reason that made sense for for 'sudo' thing in Ubuntu.
Me, every time I installed Ubuntu, first thing I did was to setup a password for root. So much more confortable to go su than to have to type sudo for every freaking command.
They're going to try to milk it way after its expiration date.
And here I was with such great hopes after the last finale.
If free software were to be made by (a) company(ies), it(they) would have been sunk by M$ monopolistic behavior.
It's only because OSS is mainly written by either volonteers or people paid by entities that don't directly compete with M$ that it has a fighting chance.
My distro of choice is currently Mandriva, but it's nothing to do with the basic theme. There are plenty of things I could criticize Ubuntu for, but theme color, gee...
Come on, at least give them cookie points for being somewhat orginal (every other distro/os seem to be some kind of blue by default) and any changing it completely is just a couple of clicks away anyway.
Until now, after seing their output, I thought only either thermal printing or professionnal printing process were better, but I forgot the case when you're trying to print on (purposelly) uneven paper - I'm talking good quality thick invitations cards here.
On the laser, the first try looked mostly ok, but you could see a couple very tiny areas where the color toner hadn't stuck, and if I were to pass my finger over it(gently, mind you), it comes off, little by little. But the worst part is that the next printout has a trace of the previous one that obviously stayed stuck on one of the cylinders - it took 4 pages of normal paper to clean it up.
With the inkjet, no problem. It came out perfectly fine and the quality was good.
When I do that, I want it to be thorough, so playing around for a couple of hours isn't enough. I have to test things out for a few days, which mean I can't not have access to all my files/mails and so on. Of course /home is separate partition.
What I do is make sure to create a user and a group with the same names and numbers as those in Mandriva (either during install or afterward, depending on what the install process allows).
For those who can't be bothered to read the man page (and don't have access to advanced enough graphical tools), the options --uid and --gid to adduser allow you to pick the id numbers.
As opposed to the mature, not-playing-with-silly-children-toys homeless people :D
I really have to disagree with this one.
Regardless of legal/moral points, the (by far) most popular online music service is p2p download.
Itunes and other similar services are a rearguard fight of the various majors, at best. Luckily for Apple they got on that soon and appropriately enough to enjoy a huge cashflow from it, but if they expect that model to last in the long run (10+ years), I'm pretty sure they're in for a rude awakening.
As far as I know, within the world's rich countries, it's only in Australia and North America that people get screwed with their internet access. Pretty much everywhere else is reasonable and you don't have crasy notion such as download monthly cap and so on.
Altogether that's about 6000 yens.
Limits? What limits? I remember last year when a friend came over for a while. With both our computers on the same connection, we often downloaded around 6Go a day...
The JR (Japan Railways) Railpass is a one, two or three weeks pass that allows you to take pretty much any train (or boats) owned by JR for their duration with no further expense.
Considering the one week pass is almost the price of a round trip Tokyo/Kyoto (that takes two and a half hours one way), they're hugely interesting. Of course, only foreigners with visitor visa can buy them...
Wasn't there some kind of project along those lines a few years back?
Well, in most western countries, you are not considered responsible for your actions when you're only 10.
As for "[...] or someone being disabled and on social security make their behavior any different? The question is whether or not they did what was claimed. If they did, then why should someone be treated differently if they're on social security than if they're fully employed and working hard and paying taxes?" you're getting onto a very interesting point as to the validity of current copyrights' laws.
My question is such: if marginal costs of accessing any kind of copyrighted work (book, music, movie... You name it) is effectively reduced to 0 (which it is, when we're talking about downloading), isn't there a moral problem in preventing people from accessing cultural products because of their inability to pay the copyright holder what he/she/it asks?
Of course, I find it such a pain in the $&# not to be able to copy/paste using my _THIRD_ mouse button whenever I'm away from a linux box...
I meant its target worldwide
It was, and its category of computers still is, very successful in Japan. Over here, size does matter. Very much so.
They resurected him a few months back, the storyline being he's been around for we don't know how many years (but staying in the shadows as some kind of super ninja/spy)
Please?
Not to mention that if you do NOT want windows (to install instead, oh I don't know. Linux?), that's a further $95 you save not going through Dell.
One of the best Pink Floyd's albums, as a matter of fact
Had such a service been available, I'd have happily forked over a couple of bucks for an hassle free process. Alas, I neither live in the US nor use windows (and plan on never doing either). That means the majors/studios won't see a cent of my money as long as they keep behaving like spoiled brats able only to say 'Mine, mine, gimme, gimme, gimme...'
Black women's corpses?