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Living Room / Re: Why Linux sucks (and how to fix it) VS. Linux doesn't suck (and I can prove it)

« on: August 14, 2012, 09:17 PM »

Wireless support for debian and it;s child distros (ubuntu, mint etc) works just fine in india. If it works in india, I wonder what stops it from not working in united states. Hell, not even so called unixes, BSDs have this much plug and play support for the internet devices here in India. Almost any 3G/4G device in India is supported under debian without much hassle.

I don't know why wireless access should be an issue. If Indians are in position to switch to linux despite slow network and other hardware issues, I don't think people in US and Canada will have any trouble on connectivity end. Most of the time If it's USB device plugged for connectivity, there is hardly anything you have to worry about it on linux. 

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Living Room / Re: It's Official: Many DC'ers Are Psychopaths~! :P

« on: August 13, 2012, 11:57 AM »

Sociopath == Donnie Darko
Psychopath == Shutter Island
Psychotic == The Hitcher

Why so serious ? 

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Living Room / Re: It's Official: Many DC'ers Are Psychopaths~! :P

« on: August 13, 2012, 02:08 AM »

I think current and the next decade is going to be worst for the anti-social behavior cases. I mean people will judge each other based on some milestones and will outcast them, this includes habit of spending time on the Internet. I mean how many of you don't attend some of the social gathering and instead spend time with family or interwebs? This type of behavior is going to be on rise as joint families goes extinct and also have some introvert members in them. People who are not sweet talkers, good looking or intellectually dominating are going to stay behind on such social gathering. That way their behavior will be judged as anti-social not because they didn't tried, but because the social manipulation which destroyed their self esteem from joining such places and they chose not to be get bullied. Let's admit it, people love to corner one person and talk BS in parties or social gathering. The aim of social gathering among intellectually low lifers is to make fun of others. Been there, seen that, suffered from that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: programming language for math

« on: August 11, 2012, 08:14 PM »

Julia

Check the performance.

http://julialang.org/

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Living Room / Re: How Blogging (or Coding) Can Rot Your Teeth

« on: August 09, 2012, 06:18 PM »

So... By that logic, sleeping must also be bad for ones teeth. Unless of course they talk in their sleep.

As per ayurveda (ancient indian hit-n-miss medicine study), our mouth develops anti-bacterial liquid and protects tongue and teeth while we are taking nap. Drinking a glass of water before brushing teeth helps because if that liquid goes into stomach, improves digestion, works against acne and some other stuff.

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Living Room / Re: Staple of people from State and Europe !

« on: August 09, 2012, 01:17 PM »

Kangaroo?  You guys actually eat that cutie jumpy animal?

Y U NO Eat house lizards on my wall. 

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Living Room / Re: It's Official: Many DC'ers Are Psychopaths~! :P

« on: August 08, 2012, 07:34 PM »

Psychology signals were used as weapon in society for centuries. These days it is heavily used in corporate places and social interaction to bully people.

Some of the examples -
- You don't work 9 to 5? geez, night shift work? ewww.
- Oh you don't shake hands with people all time in our company ? you must be sociopath.
- You want raise? why are you not working on saturday and sunday?
- Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Social examples -
- You are 30 and not yet married? OMG, your childhood must be very sad.
- You are married for 1 year and no child yet, so sorry for you guys.
- You spend time in front of PC and don't join our discussion where we ridicule our other absent friends, you're anti-social biach
- You don't earn much money like me? feel very sad for you.
- You got divorced ? sob sob sob.
- You don't keep in touch with me 24x7? I got new boyfrrnd, I iz your ex now. :p

You just can't avoid these milestone arranged by social structure. Large number of these milestones are part of psychological hacking and breaking them makes you either sociopath or psychopath, depending on whichever is worst for that counselor.

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Living Room / Re: It's Official: Many DC'ers Are Psychopaths~! :P

« on: August 08, 2012, 05:15 AM »

No place for sociopaths ? That's discrimination. Cthulu have mercy. Take over this world, my lord.

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Living Room / Re: Apple's Marketing Mindset

« on: August 07, 2012, 07:13 PM »

There are more women than men on this planet.

Forget apple. Reading this makes me feel like there is some hope for this planet. 

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Living Room / Re: Curiosity Mars rover - live feed from NASA

« on: August 06, 2012, 07:44 PM »

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Living Room / Re: Apple's Marketing Mindset

« on: August 06, 2012, 07:39 PM »

See through a list of problems. Solve only one.    Take instagram photos of product while drinking coffee in starbucks. Let it go viral. Done. Monies.

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Living Room / Re: Typing Speed Competition!

« on: August 06, 2012, 06:49 PM »

^ Hehe. At first I uploaded "speedtest" instead of "typingTest.jpg".

-kyrathaba (August 05, 2012, 07:42 PM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... desktop/mobile calendar/task list/appointments app

« on: August 06, 2012, 06:47 PM »

Remember the Milk?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Outlook.com

« on: August 04, 2012, 12:06 AM »

Gmail is laggy on Firefox and also nagging a lot with ads and usability. I hope they don't do that to other browsers than IE.

I like the interface.

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Living Room / Re: Should we pre-emptively retire old hard drives?

« on: August 03, 2012, 10:12 PM »

AFAIK, It has mail, in-house forum system, journal, file manager and few other features.

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General Software Discussion / Re: mswin vs linux in academia

« on: August 03, 2012, 09:51 AM »

I meant that exclusively in relation to creating software distribution packages, i.e. installers, setup files, packages, whatever anyone wants to call them. If you know something I don't about how to sanely create a package for Linux, please, do tell me~!

How build system has to do with simplicity of the OS? Software on linux is routed via repository and software center these days, installers are hardly needed in these cases for popular programs as community takes care of it. And this method is much easier and better than windows software installation. Hell, I am sure they'll start with repository concept soon. Again, You're comparing build package system for multi-distro linux to that of single standing windows. I am sure you do know that there are formats specific to the distribution and then there is build from source method. Software like gDebi helps in any case and user has to do nothing other than downloading the archive. To get to your point about better packaging system, there was Installjammer, for both windows and linux(or *nix) which is now discontinued and then there are some commercial installers and free like installanywhere and autopackage.

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General Software Discussion / Re: mswin vs linux in academia

« on: August 02, 2012, 06:16 PM »

Windows on the other hand is pure simplicity.

I have to disagree on that part. Windows 8 anyone?

That Said I personally found enlightenment the ugliest manager ever.

Besides linux distro options are not that bad. I mean having 1k or 10k distro doesn't change the fact that you have to select the window manager of your choice and move on with it. What's wrong with having 10k or more distros? nothing. It's just that people are bombarded with options and they feel wrong about it. As for apple, it is getting way worst hell. Restriction is hell, packaged in sugar candy. Not even windows is that bad. I must say, between windows, apple and linux, the percentage of hell quota is increasing on apple's side.

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General Software Discussion / Re: mswin vs linux in academia

« on: August 02, 2012, 11:10 AM »

Some of the softwares like say - Matlab and similar other academia softwares are commercial and they are on apple or windows. They don't usually have linux port for many reasons. So commercial academia applications on the apple and windows are better if more people are using it and it makes sharing of files easy without any file format conflict. That doesn't mean there are no applications on linux. There are and mostly they are ignored or not brought for many reasons.

I have seen nothing better in windows after using linux. I found windows to be more productive if the applications that you use are not buggy. Many of the open source and free software on *nix and linux world are made with keeping power users in mind and that's why there are very few apps which are more powerful on windows and don't exist on linux. Most of the apps which are in demand on windows are largely due to the popularity of applications, not because of the usability and features.

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Living Room / Re: New version of Chrome can WATCH and LISTEN

« on: August 01, 2012, 04:16 PM »

Imagine if they start to send you ads based on your pron preference.

======================
Wanna see me on cam? [ Insert Hot girl Image here ]
Press anywhere on the image ad
www. xyzabcefg.com
===========Ads by Google===

 

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Developer's Corner / Re: Help me think of a small ipad app idea to code

« on: July 31, 2012, 05:55 PM »

You're learning xcode? or you're using some cross platform framework that deploys native app on multiple phone platform.

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Living Room / Re: Big brother Microsoft listens in to your Skype IMs

« on: July 26, 2012, 04:22 PM »

Same can be said for Google Voice or any google service. Almost every such service is monitored by Big B here in my country.

-mahesh2k (July 24, 2012, 03:01 PM)

This made me imagine conversations are being monitored by Amitabh Bachchan (also known as Big B) for movie ideas.

-daddydave (July 26, 2012, 12:42 PM)

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Living Room / Re: Apple censors author based on content

« on: July 26, 2012, 04:19 PM »

More like competitor jacking?

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Living Room / Re: Is Linux just a hobby?

« on: July 25, 2012, 09:05 AM »

*sigh*

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Living Room / Re: Is Linux just a hobby?

« on: July 24, 2012, 07:52 PM »

.tar.bz, .gzip, type of files works on all distributions and you have to use respective terminal command to install from source.

.deb is debian distro specific file format and you have to use apt-get -i to install them. You're using mint which is under debians branch. That means you can compile this format on distro.

Another option- install gdebi and then use any format supported by debian to install software.

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Living Room / Re: Is Linux just a hobby?

« on: July 24, 2012, 05:05 PM »

Ubuntu has gnome shell (unity) which uses nautilus, KDE uses konqueror and XFCE is on thunar. All these are installed with your distro. I think if you want two pane file managers then you have lots of choices. Some are ugly in UI but still powerful.