Who says I'm an old lady who "got bored with sex"? I never was interested in it to begin with:) Sex is stupid and primal. In a world where there is artificial insemination and test tube babies, it is utterly unnecessary. I don't understand why people even both continuing to have sex when it no longer serves a purpose.
Flash 9 Beta works fine. I no longer get no sound on Flash 8 stuff and no pic on Flash 9 stuff. Everything works perfectly. There's no real reason not to install it.
I think it means Libertarian, so to answer your question...yes.
To the ones about "Jezebels"...yeah, they don't want women having casual sex, but it's not JUST women that they mean. I'm fairly sure the rules are "no sex before marriage for anyone" not "no sex before marriage if you're female." They don't want guys having sex before marriage either. Don't try to slant it so much. And you know what, there are consequences to your actions. The cause of pregnancy is sex. If you don't want that effect, avoid the cause. It's a simple matter of cause and effect. Maybe people need to grow some logic. I'm totally against the "no sex ed" thing though. If they want people to be careful, they have to give sex ed. No sex ed is why people think "you can't get pregnant your first time" and all that bologna. I think sex outside a committed, long-term relationship (I refuse to say "marriage" as there are a slew of people who are discriminated against and cannot be married to the people they love under the current laws [except in Massachusettes, Vermont, and New Jersey!]) isn't really right, but if people want to be hoes, that's their perogative. And no, "ho" does not just refer to women, so I'm not being a misogynist. Men can easily be (and often are) hoes. If you're in a long-term relationship and comfortable with the fact that a child could result if you take off your pants, then you are ready to have sex. If you cannot accept responsibility for your actions, you should not be having sex. Seriously people, it's not hard to keep it in your pants and keep your skirt to your knees.
Hey I said near the end to give them a SP2 one because either way it won't have drivers for all their hardware. The sound won't be there, the wireless won't be there, the video won't be there--there aren't drivers on a plain Windows disc. Only restore cds have the drivers slipstreamed onto them. They'd be worse off than with a Linux disc because in Linux all the drivers are in the kernel.
Well, my boyfriend's family is from Shanghai, and they're Chinese Nationalists (his mom just returned to DC from Taiwan 3 days ago). According to him, China has technically been in a state of civil war for the last 50 years. Therefore, Taiwan isn't really it's own country right now. This is sort of like you saying, in 1863, "Gosh, the South is TOTALLY a different country! The Confederacy broke away 2 years ago!" even though the Civil War wasn't over and the South ended up re-assimilating. Both the PRC and the ROC claim to own Taiwan. The US recognizes the PRC as ruler of all of China (and includes Taiwan in that), which would make them not separate. There's still confusion over there over who owns Taiwan (seeing as both sides think they're in charge). Occasionally there's talk of reunification with the PRC, but no moves have been made. (Last bit of info can be expanded upon by Wikipedia as I haven't paid any attention to the mess in a few years)
Can we force them to install Windows without a restore disc that's pre-loaded with drivers? "Here's a plain Windows XP SP1 install disc. Install it, then go hunt down some drivers so that you can get SP1 to work on SATA drives so it can even be installed, which will be with terrible graphics because you need to install your graphics drivers after the OS is installed." (SATA drivers had to be loaded on a floppy to install SP1 on them. Linux had SATA support before Windows did...well, as soon as SATA drives came out, really. SP2 did correct that issue with Windows, though) So, ignoring the SP1 + SATA thing, without a restore disc with slipstreamed drivers, it's a pain in the butt. Linux does better in that regard because of the monolithic kernel. There's at least a few less drivers to hunt down.
I never understood the need for Outlook, Thunderbird, or Evolution. The only thing I use Evolution for is the calendar (I'd like to just replace it with Sunbird, but Sunbird has issues). It never made sense to me to keep your email on your computer. I'd much rather be able to check my email from multiple places. I can get it at the library, at home, on my laptop, at work, at school, from friends' houses...why tie it to one computer? Then it's as bad as having to check the real, physical mailbox.
Because they have somewhere in the range of 5000 (and that's a conservative estimate...how many are in a 100 x 100 ft area?) artists in the stores plus a crapload more available online. There's got to be something good in there.
I buy those things. I am a huge AFI fan, so I own all of their albums on both CD and vinyl. I have a CD EP that has 3 tracks which match the cd and one track that is found there and on a few compilations (I have one of those compilations too). There's always a hidden track on the cd which isn't on the record, and there's usually one or two songs on the record that aren't on the cd (Sing the Sorrow is the only one where the US cd and vinyl match). I have 3 copies of one of their cds. I have a red Japanese one, a silver US (half of the first pressing), and a black one (limited to 5000). I still need to get a UK copy of that. I have 2 vinyl singles from them and 6 cd singles. If I only want music from one artist on a compilation, I buy that artist's albums instead of getting a cd that's 99% crap. It just makes more sense that way. The iTunes exclusives are the only thing I miss out on, and I bet they'll end up as "special tracks" on compilations anyway. That's what usually happens. They promote a compilation by saying "and LOOK! you get THIS bonus track!"
I would argue that if you're a fan, you're more likely to shell out the cash for the collector's value.
If an artist only writes one or two good songs for every 15 they release, they suck. Why are you buying their shit anyway? Besides, if a cd is $12 at the store, and has $15 tracks, it's $15 on iTunes and therefore more expensive than getting it at Best Buy (where cds are often $9.99 for 15 tracks).
Now, memory, that's something you need to buy online. I got a $50 Best Buy card and figured I'd add $50 cash and get a gig of memory for my laptop. I saw the memory I need for $90 online, but BB charges $180! Double the price...not good. Their cds are rather cheap though.
oh, Mac, right...ok that does take some thought because ndiswrapper is usually used for Windows drivers. I bet there's Windows drivers for the airport card though, given that Boot Camp exists.
ndiswrapper is just a wrapper to make the driver behave like it's for Linux. I haven't had to use it yet. Everything's been supported OOTB for my computers. I bought a wireless adapter for one of the desktops, and that might require it, so I may be learning to set it up soon enough.
How many computer illiterates even go over 1024x768? I resisted going above 800x600 because I like the automatic zoom effect it has when doing detail work on graphics.
I had the same experience. It installed perfectly. Everything works perfectly. My mom who can't even figure out how to get a blank document in Word without opening a saved one and backspacing it all out uses Ubuntu. She has no problems with it. My brother and sister who can use a computer just enough to type a term paper or log into MySpace use it. Nobody has any problems. The hardest part is installing your apps-of-choice after install (mainly knowing what they are and the names of the codecs). I have a text file with a list of things to apt-get. I paste it in, hit enter, and it's done. That's how I set up the computer for them. It just works.
Some time in the next week or two I'm setting up a couple of my friends' computers with Ubuntu. They want to try it, and I can install and set it up and get all of their hardware going if it's not detected out of the box (I have yet to run into this situation). If I set it up, they'll have no issues because the hardest thing's over.
ndiswrapper is on the Ubuntu install disk. Install it from there. Then install your wireless card's drivers from the wireless card's driver disk for Windows. There. You're done.
people who do venture into IRC channels and forums for the first time looking for help usually get informed fairly quickly that they should stfu and figure it out themselves.
Where are you? Linuxnet? Try #ubuntu or #ubuntuforums. They're extremely friendly and helpful. Linuxchix is another really helpful group. Ubuntuforums.org will get you a useful response within 5 to 15 minutes, and if you gave sufficient detail in your post, you'll have an answer in that time.
I've never been told to RTFM or STFU. Sometimes I try to RTFM, but often TFM makes little sense. On the IRC channels, you ask, you get an answer, you move on. Linuxnet is the only channel I've heard of where they're mean to n00bs--and gosh are they mean. That's why you can Google high and low and not find the channel's server name. It's sort of invite-only. Ubuntu, though? Nah, they're good.
I think that IS the default on Ubuntu. I've been using Ubuntu exclusively since July and both Nautilus CD burner and GnomeBaker run without sudo. You just click on them. It's easy.
Agreed about it being pre-installed. I installed mine with no problem, but I looked up my hardware first to be sure it'd work. Now some friends are asking me about Ubuntu and wanting to try it. I'll install and configure it for them. I don't expect them to figure it out on their own. They, like a lot of Windows users, are sick of spyware and viruses, and this is a cheap way to get rid of that issue (because a Mac would cost a pretty penny). My brother and sister see that benefit and have decided that they will use Ubuntu on their laptops when they go to college in 2 years. To help them adjust, I installed it on my mom's computer. She can barely use Windows, so there's no relearning. It all runs without a hitch. The video driver doesn't break once a week, it's faster, no virus issues. They like it. I got two negative responses. The first was "I don't know how to make it save a MS Word file" (click on file type, and choose that one). The second was "my info on AIM looks a little bit different" (font issue is my guess). Other than that, they have no problems. It's easy for them to adjust.
I confused the "Geek Squad" when I booted from a live cd to test a laptop's hardware's support on Linux. They didn't get that it didn't require them to reinstall Windows. They also look at you all funny if you say "Linux" then say "uh....I'll look on Google. hold on." They're pretty stupid.
Why couldn't a 12 year old use Unix? About the time that movie came out, my bf was a 15 year old who had been using Linux for a year after growing up on Unix and SunOS and coding FORTRAN with his mom. If he could use pre-1.0 Linux, she could've used Unix with CDE (or if there was another DE back then which I don't know about that...I blame being in kindergarden when that movie came out).
There are ways in HTML email of inserting 1-pixel transparent gifs which have unique load addresses based on who opens the email so that the sender know which people they mail read it. That's how spammers know if you open the spam they send. It's a sort of tracking cookie image.
Only 2 levels maximum? In 5th & 6th grade, they had 2 levels. By 8th you had 2 levels for English and 3 for math. High schoolers here get 4 or 5 levels possible for math (pre-algebra through Calculus 2 + prob/stat) and 3 for everything else (CP, honors, AP).
Parents should be teaching their kids, though. My mom and my aunts all taught all of their kids to read BEFORE first grade. We all did addition and subtraction BEFORE first grade. We learned how to use our brains at an early age, and we all do well in school. If a kid's doing poorly, there are 2 things to look for: a learning disability and parents who didn't stimulate their kids' brains. If my parents had told me to watch tv constantly as a child, I'd probably be stupid too. Instead we had limits on tv time (tv time was spent with shows like Reading Rainbow, Wishbone, etc), no video games, and lots of books and puzzles. A kid can't go into first grade knowing only the alphabet and not the sounds. He or she should be able to read short sentences when first grade starts.
I wouldn't say schools in the US are getting steadily worse though. When my parents went to school, it was acceptable that my mom took algebra in 12th grade and again in her first/only year of college. Now, it is normal to take it in 8th grade, and often 7th grade (as my brother and I did). We learn more earlier now. My elementary school considered base-switching (decimal/base-3) a normal part of 6th grade math curriculum. That made binary in 10th grade computer class really easy. Most people I know have no idea how to switch bases, when it's really easy. Math has definitely improved over the years, but I will say that since TFA is about tech skills, that part is right. You used to know how to use a computer because you understood how it worked and the interface was intuitive and you can figure it out because you know how computers work. Now they just teach applications. They teach MS Office 10 times! You learned it the first time, you're done. Teach something else.
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Who says I'm an old lady who "got bored with sex"? I never was interested in it to begin with :) Sex is stupid and primal. In a world where there is artificial insemination and test tube babies, it is utterly unnecessary. I don't understand why people even both continuing to have sex when it no longer serves a purpose.
Flash 9 Beta works fine. I no longer get no sound on Flash 8 stuff and no pic on Flash 9 stuff. Everything works perfectly. There's no real reason not to install it.
I think it means Libertarian, so to answer your question...yes.
To the ones about "Jezebels"...yeah, they don't want women having casual sex, but it's not JUST women that they mean. I'm fairly sure the rules are "no sex before marriage for anyone" not "no sex before marriage if you're female." They don't want guys having sex before marriage either. Don't try to slant it so much. And you know what, there are consequences to your actions. The cause of pregnancy is sex. If you don't want that effect, avoid the cause. It's a simple matter of cause and effect. Maybe people need to grow some logic. I'm totally against the "no sex ed" thing though. If they want people to be careful, they have to give sex ed. No sex ed is why people think "you can't get pregnant your first time" and all that bologna. I think sex outside a committed, long-term relationship (I refuse to say "marriage" as there are a slew of people who are discriminated against and cannot be married to the people they love under the current laws [except in Massachusettes, Vermont, and New Jersey!]) isn't really right, but if people want to be hoes, that's their perogative. And no, "ho" does not just refer to women, so I'm not being a misogynist. Men can easily be (and often are) hoes. If you're in a long-term relationship and comfortable with the fact that a child could result if you take off your pants, then you are ready to have sex. If you cannot accept responsibility for your actions, you should not be having sex. Seriously people, it's not hard to keep it in your pants and keep your skirt to your knees.
Hey I said near the end to give them a SP2 one because either way it won't have drivers for all their hardware. The sound won't be there, the wireless won't be there, the video won't be there--there aren't drivers on a plain Windows disc. Only restore cds have the drivers slipstreamed onto them. They'd be worse off than with a Linux disc because in Linux all the drivers are in the kernel.
Really? The SCSI drivers are flexible enough that SATAs just mount as SCSI drives. My main HDD mounts as /dev/sda and my external as /dev/sdb.
Well, my boyfriend's family is from Shanghai, and they're Chinese Nationalists (his mom just returned to DC from Taiwan 3 days ago). According to him, China has technically been in a state of civil war for the last 50 years. Therefore, Taiwan isn't really it's own country right now. This is sort of like you saying, in 1863, "Gosh, the South is TOTALLY a different country! The Confederacy broke away 2 years ago!" even though the Civil War wasn't over and the South ended up re-assimilating. Both the PRC and the ROC claim to own Taiwan. The US recognizes the PRC as ruler of all of China (and includes Taiwan in that), which would make them not separate. There's still confusion over there over who owns Taiwan (seeing as both sides think they're in charge). Occasionally there's talk of reunification with the PRC, but no moves have been made. (Last bit of info can be expanded upon by Wikipedia as I haven't paid any attention to the mess in a few years)
Can we force them to install Windows without a restore disc that's pre-loaded with drivers? "Here's a plain Windows XP SP1 install disc. Install it, then go hunt down some drivers so that you can get SP1 to work on SATA drives so it can even be installed, which will be with terrible graphics because you need to install your graphics drivers after the OS is installed." (SATA drivers had to be loaded on a floppy to install SP1 on them. Linux had SATA support before Windows did...well, as soon as SATA drives came out, really. SP2 did correct that issue with Windows, though) So, ignoring the SP1 + SATA thing, without a restore disc with slipstreamed drivers, it's a pain in the butt. Linux does better in that regard because of the monolithic kernel. There's at least a few less drivers to hunt down.
Europe is not a country. It is a continent, and Russia is part of it.
I never understood the need for Outlook, Thunderbird, or Evolution. The only thing I use Evolution for is the calendar (I'd like to just replace it with Sunbird, but Sunbird has issues). It never made sense to me to keep your email on your computer. I'd much rather be able to check my email from multiple places. I can get it at the library, at home, on my laptop, at work, at school, from friends' houses...why tie it to one computer? Then it's as bad as having to check the real, physical mailbox.
I've gotten 2-disc sets at Tower Records (which is an amazingly overpriced place) before. Never really seen them for $29.99. Usually around $25.
Because they have somewhere in the range of 5000 (and that's a conservative estimate...how many are in a 100 x 100 ft area?) artists in the stores plus a crapload more available online. There's got to be something good in there.
I buy those things. I am a huge AFI fan, so I own all of their albums on both CD and vinyl. I have a CD EP that has 3 tracks which match the cd and one track that is found there and on a few compilations (I have one of those compilations too). There's always a hidden track on the cd which isn't on the record, and there's usually one or two songs on the record that aren't on the cd (Sing the Sorrow is the only one where the US cd and vinyl match). I have 3 copies of one of their cds. I have a red Japanese one, a silver US (half of the first pressing), and a black one (limited to 5000). I still need to get a UK copy of that. I have 2 vinyl singles from them and 6 cd singles. If I only want music from one artist on a compilation, I buy that artist's albums instead of getting a cd that's 99% crap. It just makes more sense that way. The iTunes exclusives are the only thing I miss out on, and I bet they'll end up as "special tracks" on compilations anyway. That's what usually happens. They promote a compilation by saying "and LOOK! you get THIS bonus track!"
I would argue that if you're a fan, you're more likely to shell out the cash for the collector's value.
If an artist only writes one or two good songs for every 15 they release, they suck. Why are you buying their shit anyway? Besides, if a cd is $12 at the store, and has $15 tracks, it's $15 on iTunes and therefore more expensive than getting it at Best Buy (where cds are often $9.99 for 15 tracks).
Now, memory, that's something you need to buy online. I got a $50 Best Buy card and figured I'd add $50 cash and get a gig of memory for my laptop. I saw the memory I need for $90 online, but BB charges $180! Double the price...not good. Their cds are rather cheap though.
oh, Mac, right...ok that does take some thought because ndiswrapper is usually used for Windows drivers. I bet there's Windows drivers for the airport card though, given that Boot Camp exists.
ndiswrapper is just a wrapper to make the driver behave like it's for Linux. I haven't had to use it yet. Everything's been supported OOTB for my computers. I bought a wireless adapter for one of the desktops, and that might require it, so I may be learning to set it up soon enough.
How many computer illiterates even go over 1024x768? I resisted going above 800x600 because I like the automatic zoom effect it has when doing detail work on graphics.
I had the same experience. It installed perfectly. Everything works perfectly. My mom who can't even figure out how to get a blank document in Word without opening a saved one and backspacing it all out uses Ubuntu. She has no problems with it. My brother and sister who can use a computer just enough to type a term paper or log into MySpace use it. Nobody has any problems. The hardest part is installing your apps-of-choice after install (mainly knowing what they are and the names of the codecs). I have a text file with a list of things to apt-get. I paste it in, hit enter, and it's done. That's how I set up the computer for them. It just works.
Some time in the next week or two I'm setting up a couple of my friends' computers with Ubuntu. They want to try it, and I can install and set it up and get all of their hardware going if it's not detected out of the box (I have yet to run into this situation). If I set it up, they'll have no issues because the hardest thing's over.
ndiswrapper is on the Ubuntu install disk. Install it from there. Then install your wireless card's drivers from the wireless card's driver disk for Windows. There. You're done.
Automatix works for Ubuntu. There's now an updated one, though Automatix2. There's also EasyUbuntu.
I've never been told to RTFM or STFU. Sometimes I try to RTFM, but often TFM makes little sense. On the IRC channels, you ask, you get an answer, you move on. Linuxnet is the only channel I've heard of where they're mean to n00bs--and gosh are they mean. That's why you can Google high and low and not find the channel's server name. It's sort of invite-only. Ubuntu, though? Nah, they're good.
I think that IS the default on Ubuntu. I've been using Ubuntu exclusively since July and both Nautilus CD burner and GnomeBaker run without sudo. You just click on them. It's easy.
Agreed about it being pre-installed. I installed mine with no problem, but I looked up my hardware first to be sure it'd work. Now some friends are asking me about Ubuntu and wanting to try it. I'll install and configure it for them. I don't expect them to figure it out on their own. They, like a lot of Windows users, are sick of spyware and viruses, and this is a cheap way to get rid of that issue (because a Mac would cost a pretty penny). My brother and sister see that benefit and have decided that they will use Ubuntu on their laptops when they go to college in 2 years. To help them adjust, I installed it on my mom's computer. She can barely use Windows, so there's no relearning. It all runs without a hitch. The video driver doesn't break once a week, it's faster, no virus issues. They like it. I got two negative responses. The first was "I don't know how to make it save a MS Word file" (click on file type, and choose that one). The second was "my info on AIM looks a little bit different" (font issue is my guess). Other than that, they have no problems. It's easy for them to adjust.
I confused the "Geek Squad" when I booted from a live cd to test a laptop's hardware's support on Linux. They didn't get that it didn't require them to reinstall Windows. They also look at you all funny if you say "Linux" then say "uh....I'll look on Google. hold on." They're pretty stupid.
About Synaptic? Or about the legality of codecs? I'm pretty sure that's why you pay for Mandriva.
Why couldn't a 12 year old use Unix? About the time that movie came out, my bf was a 15 year old who had been using Linux for a year after growing up on Unix and SunOS and coding FORTRAN with his mom. If he could use pre-1.0 Linux, she could've used Unix with CDE (or if there was another DE back then which I don't know about that...I blame being in kindergarden when that movie came out).
There are ways in HTML email of inserting 1-pixel transparent gifs which have unique load addresses based on who opens the email so that the sender know which people they mail read it. That's how spammers know if you open the spam they send. It's a sort of tracking cookie image.
Only 2 levels maximum? In 5th & 6th grade, they had 2 levels. By 8th you had 2 levels for English and 3 for math. High schoolers here get 4 or 5 levels possible for math (pre-algebra through Calculus 2 + prob/stat) and 3 for everything else (CP, honors, AP).
Parents should be teaching their kids, though. My mom and my aunts all taught all of their kids to read BEFORE first grade. We all did addition and subtraction BEFORE first grade. We learned how to use our brains at an early age, and we all do well in school. If a kid's doing poorly, there are 2 things to look for: a learning disability and parents who didn't stimulate their kids' brains. If my parents had told me to watch tv constantly as a child, I'd probably be stupid too. Instead we had limits on tv time (tv time was spent with shows like Reading Rainbow, Wishbone, etc), no video games, and lots of books and puzzles. A kid can't go into first grade knowing only the alphabet and not the sounds. He or she should be able to read short sentences when first grade starts.
I wouldn't say schools in the US are getting steadily worse though. When my parents went to school, it was acceptable that my mom took algebra in 12th grade and again in her first/only year of college. Now, it is normal to take it in 8th grade, and often 7th grade (as my brother and I did). We learn more earlier now. My elementary school considered base-switching (decimal/base-3) a normal part of 6th grade math curriculum. That made binary in 10th grade computer class really easy. Most people I know have no idea how to switch bases, when it's really easy. Math has definitely improved over the years, but I will say that since TFA is about tech skills, that part is right. You used to know how to use a computer because you understood how it worked and the interface was intuitive and you can figure it out because you know how computers work. Now they just teach applications. They teach MS Office 10 times! You learned it the first time, you're done. Teach something else.