Dude, I know how you feel, for the most part I feel the same way. Almost everytime I hear the English language contorted, bastardised, and pissed upon it makes my inner Grammar Nazi want to bust a cap in all their asses. And when I hear them decry thrift, morality, humility, and common courtesy it make the Wiccan priest in me want to (okay, technically I'm supposed to "harm none") but I want to FUCKING JACK SLAP THESE PUNKS! Great Goddess! Where these men ever disciplined or taught how to act and speak like civilised PEOPLE!
To be honest I find most rap atrocious, but you know melody and rhythm are just tools to help convey the message and I believe that there is some good rap albeit I've found rap to be most conductive in a comical and/or violent sense where as rock is what I listen to usually if I want to "jam out" but I also listen to electronica, new age, country (the older stuff mostly), and even classical. It would be nice to hear some nerds delve into the country and rock scene but only if they didn't act like poseurs. Heck, one could even argue that some subbranches or electronica were even inspired by new age and classical, just listen to some of the music from the Final Fantasy 6 sound tracks and many of the MOD artists of the 1980s and 90s.
The fact is that no matter the type of music the musical tone must help convey the emotional tone of the song, otherwise it's just a crap shoot which is why I don't listen to much rap or hiphop (plus the messages are just horrible).
Well the biggest problem with YUM, and APT-RPM, even Smart are that they are all afterthoughts. The system needs to be redesigned because of this so that RPM can better integrate. RPM has a lot of good features but there is still no reliable solution to Debian's "apt-get dist-upgrade". Yes you can upgrade RPM based systems but I've found it to be a nightmare when it comes to dependencies and fixing the problems is often more difficult than on dpkg based systems running apt and aptitude.
However, this could be due to the fact many RPM based distros still don't have a proper, well thought-out, well designed repository and repository management system which is key.
Actually there is one thing that I would like to see dpkg do that RPM cannot and that I really miss from Fedora Core and that is the ability to flag a package that is "broken" as just "installed". It really pisses me off that every time I go to install something from synaptic I find that QJoyPad gets uninstalled because they have a dependency labeled wrong, yet the program still works without flaw. Other than that dpkg is awesome, but so is RPM and I thing removing some of those "features nobody uses" would really hurt when you really need to use them but they aren't there.
The solution is simple. they should only display the most common command functions and then at the bottom of the help message display something to the nature of "for more options see the rpm manpage" This way you get your simplified view of command features and the more complex ones if you need them. However, I think they could really clean up their manpages. Perhaps I should join the community on that one since my coding isn't the best in the world (I'm starting out learning C, but I do manage to code well enough not to throw up even warnings, so I'd say I'm doing okay).
Actually what I would like to see is not on MS Office clone like OpenOffice or clones in stand alone packages like Abiword and Gnumeric, but something totally different, something new and innovative. Now, I'm not a fan of KDE or QT (I think they look hackey and in a bad way), but KOffice is headed in the right direction but isn't all the way there. It doesn't have the feature creep however it is pretty monolithic and a bitch to use BECAUSE NOTHING EVER WORKS IN IT! But the approach is novel and I would really like to see something like this come through. The applications should be minimal, slick, stand-alone, easy-to-use, and just good all around. A system for separating formating from design would be awesome other than the complex to use, often flaky "Styles" system that doesn't always transfer with the document (think about what CSS is to XHTML).
As for presentations, it would be nice to see a similar system in place. Let's fact it powerpoint presentations (general term here) suck. They are no more effective than a white board and are generally very ugly. What we need here is perhaps a more intuitive program, simpler, and follow the above idea of formating above design so everything looks consistent. And on the note of them looking ugly perhaps the people in charge should have their designers make the powerpoints and have the people in management, sales, accounts, IT, or whatever do what they do best.
Existence is a funny thing in the fact that like God, you can't prove it. How do you know that everything is just an illusion possibly including yourself too. Either way, if you cut yourself it still hurts so I guess it really doesn't matter either way.
Funny you should say this because many of my friends get together on a weekly basis to play Dungeons and Dragons, tell stories and jokes, and if someone just happens to get on the computer and finds something of intrest (usually some hilarious bit on youtube or an outlandish comment on a web forum) then everyone is huddled around watching. Same goes for when we all watch animé episodes on the net through similar services.
It may not be as comfortable, but it sure is just as fun as watching TV and now that I think about it we actually watch less TV since we've started watching it online thanks to the lack of commercials which is a good thing.
Well there is always OpenSuSE which can have all the power of commercial SuSE if you add the extra software repositories. Secondly most componets of SuSE including YAST2, SaX, and hwconfig are all now licensed under the (L)GPL so the distro could be totally split. If Microsoft / Novell tries anything funny they'll have to deal with anti-trust lawsuits from Red Hat, Mandriva, Oracle, and Apple just to name a few--the simple fact this that they wouldn't have a leg to stand on in court with all that evidence against him.
Not on fire. Mr Bush just wiped his ass on that "God damn sheet of paper" that is our Constitution. This is probably a stunt puled before the elections to make the people feel like their government is protecting them. Well, if in sometime in the future I find when we are all locked up or living in ghettos (the real ones, not what modern urban blacks call "ghettos" because they don't understand the concept) then I know I shall be in good company. What ever happened to "Live free or die."
I have to say that is a nice sig (yeah, I know it's an Orwell quote) and may unfortunately be typical of the future world we are all going to live in. The good news is that even though we may become a fascist nation, they are usually short lived despite the damage they do. Nazi Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Spain, and Portugal lasted less than fifteen years. Hopefully if our sails our set that way, then for us too it shall only be a short term trend.
I think you mean forced. For all too many people, credit is the only reason they are not living in a cardboard box. The number of people making less than $12,000 a year is staggering--I can attest that I know too many people that work schedules determined on a day-to-day basis, make minimum (and some even below the minimum), and can barely afford living with a roommate in a studio apartment.
You could almost say it is they're enabler. By the way, when I saw this I almost choked on my coffee. I cannot believe the arrogance of our government and the apathy of our own people. I just wish I could up to a paper on tomorrow's door step that reads: "BUSH INCARCERATED!" or "President Bush Assassinated"
No, I'm afraid it's going to take people, lots of people, in the streets, being decidedly ill-behaved if we're going to keep this nation anything like the beautiful experiment that the Founding Fathers produced. If the principles of the Enlightenment are going to survive, we're going to have to act the way the heroes who created this country acted: badly. Civil disobedience and mass demonstrations, general strikes and boycotts. There's going to be some fighting before this power-grab by the Authoritarian Right who have masked themselves as "Conservatives" will end.
Despite my general laziness and particular enjoyment of online games like Eve-Online, I am prepared to fight, and if necessary, die, for my country. Even if it means that it will be other Americans that I will have to fight to protect the United States of America.
You sir, have just said perhaps the most beautiful and more inspiring things I've read on Slashdot. How many others out there are truly willing to go out and fight and possibly die for such a wonderful thing as liberty. The fact is that there are not many people in our nation that would do the same. Courage like that is rare and those who have it should be proud, and even prouder shall men like you be when that courage makes them heroes.
Why not start a project or convince Epiphany or Galeon devs to go that route or create a project split as much as I hate to say that. That is what open source is all about. I think the minimalist + extentions route is the way to go too. Although I would like to see it go much further with a core and a wrapper for GTK+, QT, and Win32. That way there would be total integration with your desktop be it GNOME, XFCE, KDE, Windows, or something else.
It would be nice to see a browser that could be installed with the minimals, then some default plugins as options from the install menu / first run menu (depending on if your are running windows or just installed your linux distro). Then for even more functionality you could download even more plugins.
Extensibility and stability via modularity is the UNIX way of doing things, and also the best way for both the developers and the users because it gives everyone more options.
You laugh, but several of my friend and I get together with wooden practice swords and go at it full steam. Great way to exercise and very fun too. Although if you are concerned about getting hurt you may want to invest in some sort of armour or padding and definitely shielding for your head (and hands if you work with computer and rely on them to code).
There's a guy on the street corner where I live that gives away free crack coupons every couple of months--use as many as you want as often as you want. If you get addicted, you'll end up being his customer when it's no longer free.
So where does Free Speech begin and Hate Speech begin. Funny I always thought your rights ended where my rights begin. For example you could preach that your followers could kill my peoples but you can't actually do it because doing so would violate my rights to Life, Liberty, and Prosperity.
That reminds me of that old joke from "The Simpsons" where Homer is setting at a computer and it displays "Hit any key to continue..." and Homer suddenly freaks out and screams "OH MY GOD! THERE IS NO 'ANY' KEY!" Freaking hilarious man.
"There is nothing inherent in a democratic system apart from the constant watch of the people that stops the system from becoming undemocratic and fascist. The leaders generally work towards that state, however well intentioned they might be."
How does that old Christian saying go? "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."?
Plus counting sells of Apple computers tells you absolutely nothing. What if I want to run Ubuntu, OpenSuSE, Fedora, Debian, or Slack on my Mac? And to top that off I try it and prefer this thing called GNOME / KDE / Xfce over OSX so I tottaly remove OSX from my system and thus no longer run Apple's operating system.
According to the sells ticket that Apple computer was sold and was obviously running OSX when it was sold. But now it is not and there is no way to measure the amount (however small or large it may be) of people migrating away from OSX but running their new OS on their Macs.
Gotta say, I love their hardware and I'm tempted to make my next purchase an Apple, but I know if I did the first thing I would do is install OpenSuSE or Ubuntu because Xfce is how I roll.
this sounds like it has a lot of potential but I don't think poeple would be friendly to the idea the Tropicana juice plant would be recieving steam that was a biproduct of what the layman would essentally read as burnt trash.Even made me gag. But in all seriousness this sounds like a great idea and if all the biproducts are safe to use and this produces less pollution than fossil fuels then I am all for it. This may be the big break we need to to free our power plants from Big Oil--but the question reamins will Big Oil play fair and not try to have this programme regulated into oblivion with scare tatics? I hope not.
Energy that better AND cheaper. Amd as a Floridian I would welcome any power source to my state that would show promise of freeing ourselves from dependence on Big Oil at the municipal level.
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Dude, I know how you feel, for the most part I feel the same way. Almost everytime I hear the English language contorted, bastardised, and pissed upon it makes my inner Grammar Nazi want to bust a cap in all their asses. And when I hear them decry thrift, morality, humility, and common courtesy it make the Wiccan priest in me want to (okay, technically I'm supposed to "harm none") but I want to FUCKING JACK SLAP THESE PUNKS! Great Goddess! Where these men ever disciplined or taught how to act and speak like civilised PEOPLE!
To be honest I find most rap atrocious, but you know melody and rhythm are just tools to help convey the message and I believe that there is some good rap albeit I've found rap to be most conductive in a comical and/or violent sense where as rock is what I listen to usually if I want to "jam out" but I also listen to electronica, new age, country (the older stuff mostly), and even classical. It would be nice to hear some nerds delve into the country and rock scene but only if they didn't act like poseurs. Heck, one could even argue that some subbranches or electronica were even inspired by new age and classical, just listen to some of the music from the Final Fantasy 6 sound tracks and many of the MOD artists of the 1980s and 90s.
The fact is that no matter the type of music the musical tone must help convey the emotional tone of the song, otherwise it's just a crap shoot which is why I don't listen to much rap or hiphop (plus the messages are just horrible).
What about They Might Be Giants. Now that was a great nerdcore band, and very comical in a subtle way. Sometimes that is the best humour.
Well the biggest problem with YUM, and APT-RPM, even Smart are that they are all afterthoughts. The system needs to be redesigned because of this so that RPM can better integrate. RPM has a lot of good features but there is still no reliable solution to Debian's "apt-get dist-upgrade". Yes you can upgrade RPM based systems but I've found it to be a nightmare when it comes to dependencies and fixing the problems is often more difficult than on dpkg based systems running apt and aptitude.
However, this could be due to the fact many RPM based distros still don't have a proper, well thought-out, well designed repository and repository management system which is key.
Actually there is one thing that I would like to see dpkg do that RPM cannot and that I really miss from Fedora Core and that is the ability to flag a package that is "broken" as just "installed". It really pisses me off that every time I go to install something from synaptic I find that QJoyPad gets uninstalled because they have a dependency labeled wrong, yet the program still works without flaw. Other than that dpkg is awesome, but so is RPM and I thing removing some of those "features nobody uses" would really hurt when you really need to use them but they aren't there.
The solution is simple. they should only display the most common command functions and then at the bottom of the help message display something to the nature of "for more options see the rpm manpage" This way you get your simplified view of command features and the more complex ones if you need them. However, I think they could really clean up their manpages. Perhaps I should join the community on that one since my coding isn't the best in the world (I'm starting out learning C, but I do manage to code well enough not to throw up even warnings, so I'd say I'm doing okay).
Actually what I would like to see is not on MS Office clone like OpenOffice or clones in stand alone packages like Abiword and Gnumeric, but something totally different, something new and innovative. Now, I'm not a fan of KDE or QT (I think they look hackey and in a bad way), but KOffice is headed in the right direction but isn't all the way there. It doesn't have the feature creep however it is pretty monolithic and a bitch to use BECAUSE NOTHING EVER WORKS IN IT! But the approach is novel and I would really like to see something like this come through. The applications should be minimal, slick, stand-alone, easy-to-use, and just good all around. A system for separating formating from design would be awesome other than the complex to use, often flaky "Styles" system that doesn't always transfer with the document (think about what CSS is to XHTML).
As for presentations, it would be nice to see a similar system in place. Let's fact it powerpoint presentations (general term here) suck. They are no more effective than a white board and are generally very ugly. What we need here is perhaps a more intuitive program, simpler, and follow the above idea of formating above design so everything looks consistent. And on the note of them looking ugly perhaps the people in charge should have their designers make the powerpoints and have the people in management, sales, accounts, IT, or whatever do what they do best.
Existence is a funny thing in the fact that like God, you can't prove it. How do you know that everything is just an illusion possibly including yourself too. Either way, if you cut yourself it still hurts so I guess it really doesn't matter either way.
In Soviet Russia Godwin's Law invokes you!
Funny you should say this because many of my friends get together on a weekly basis to play Dungeons and Dragons, tell stories and jokes, and if someone just happens to get on the computer and finds something of intrest (usually some hilarious bit on youtube or an outlandish comment on a web forum) then everyone is huddled around watching. Same goes for when we all watch animé episodes on the net through similar services.
It may not be as comfortable, but it sure is just as fun as watching TV and now that I think about it we actually watch less TV since we've started watching it online thanks to the lack of commercials which is a good thing.
Geez man, you do realise you didn't have to give moose tongue!
Well there is always OpenSuSE which can have all the power of commercial SuSE if you add the extra software repositories. Secondly most componets of SuSE including YAST2, SaX, and hwconfig are all now licensed under the (L)GPL so the distro could be totally split. If Microsoft / Novell tries anything funny they'll have to deal with anti-trust lawsuits from Red Hat, Mandriva, Oracle, and Apple just to name a few--the simple fact this that they wouldn't have a leg to stand on in court with all that evidence against him.
Not on fire. Mr Bush just wiped his ass on that "God damn sheet of paper" that is our Constitution. This is probably a stunt puled before the elections to make the people feel like their government is protecting them. Well, if in sometime in the future I find when we are all locked up or living in ghettos (the real ones, not what modern urban blacks call "ghettos" because they don't understand the concept) then I know I shall be in good company. What ever happened to "Live free or die."
I have to say that is a nice sig (yeah, I know it's an Orwell quote) and may unfortunately be typical of the future world we are all going to live in. The good news is that even though we may become a fascist nation, they are usually short lived despite the damage they do. Nazi Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Spain, and Portugal lasted less than fifteen years. Hopefully if our sails our set that way, then for us too it shall only be a short term trend.
I think you mean forced. For all too many people, credit is the only reason they are not living in a cardboard box. The number of people making less than $12,000 a year is staggering--I can attest that I know too many people that work schedules determined on a day-to-day basis, make minimum (and some even below the minimum), and can barely afford living with a roommate in a studio apartment.
You could almost say it is they're enabler. By the way, when I saw this I almost choked on my coffee. I cannot believe the arrogance of our government and the apathy of our own people. I just wish I could up to a paper on tomorrow's door step that reads: "BUSH INCARCERATED!" or "President Bush Assassinated"
Why not start a project or convince Epiphany or Galeon devs to go that route or create a project split as much as I hate to say that. That is what open source is all about. I think the minimalist + extentions route is the way to go too. Although I would like to see it go much further with a core and a wrapper for GTK+, QT, and Win32. That way there would be total integration with your desktop be it GNOME, XFCE, KDE, Windows, or something else.
It would be nice to see a browser that could be installed with the minimals, then some default plugins as options from the install menu / first run menu (depending on if your are running windows or just installed your linux distro). Then for even more functionality you could download even more plugins.
Extensibility and stability via modularity is the UNIX way of doing things, and also the best way for both the developers and the users because it gives everyone more options.
You laugh, but several of my friend and I get together with wooden practice swords and go at it full steam. Great way to exercise and very fun too. Although if you are concerned about getting hurt you may want to invest in some sort of armour or padding and definitely shielding for your head (and hands if you work with computer and rely on them to code).
There's a guy on the street corner where I live that gives away free crack coupons every couple of months--use as many as you want as often as you want. If you get addicted, you'll end up being his customer when it's no longer free.
fixed that for you.
You know what is even more depressing is when some of the best newscasting is on Comedy Central and meant to be parody or satirical.
So where does Free Speech begin and Hate Speech begin. Funny I always thought your rights ended where my rights begin. For example you could preach that your followers could kill my peoples but you can't actually do it because doing so would violate my rights to Life, Liberty, and Prosperity.
That reminds me of that old joke from "The Simpsons" where Homer is setting at a computer and it displays "Hit any key to continue..." and Homer suddenly freaks out and screams "OH MY GOD! THERE IS NO 'ANY' KEY!" Freaking hilarious man.
"There is nothing inherent in a democratic system apart from the constant watch of the people that stops the system from becoming undemocratic and fascist. The leaders generally work towards that state, however well intentioned they might be."
How does that old Christian saying go? "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."?
Plus counting sells of Apple computers tells you absolutely nothing. What if I want to run Ubuntu, OpenSuSE, Fedora, Debian, or Slack on my Mac? And to top that off I try it and prefer this thing called GNOME / KDE / Xfce over OSX so I tottaly remove OSX from my system and thus no longer run Apple's operating system.
According to the sells ticket that Apple computer was sold and was obviously running OSX when it was sold. But now it is not and there is no way to measure the amount (however small or large it may be) of people migrating away from OSX but running their new OS on their Macs.
Gotta say, I love their hardware and I'm tempted to make my next purchase an Apple, but I know if I did the first thing I would do is install OpenSuSE or Ubuntu because Xfce is how I roll.
this sounds like it has a lot of potential but I don't think poeple would be friendly to the idea the Tropicana juice plant would be recieving steam that was a biproduct of what the layman would essentally read as burnt trash.Even made me gag. But in all seriousness this sounds like a great idea and if all the biproducts are safe to use and this produces less pollution than fossil fuels then I am all for it. This may be the big break we need to to free our power plants from Big Oil--but the question reamins will Big Oil play fair and not try to have this programme regulated into oblivion with scare tatics? I hope not.
Energy that better AND cheaper. Amd as a Floridian I would welcome any power source to my state that would show promise of freeing ourselves from dependence on Big Oil at the municipal level.