Then why can't I buy a PC without Windows at all? And why do I have to go through six hoops of hell to attempt a refund if I refuse the first boot EULA?
I work as an ME in a US manufacturing company - though it is definitely not rocket science (at times it feels like a blacksmithy with CNC machines). We rarely use metric as our customers rarely do either for the various reasons of backwards compatibilty, machinery, tooling, and especially that steel plate, bar, and tube warehouses only carry a handful of metric sizes. And ordering a custom mill run requires around 3,000 pounds per size.
But I think another good reason we haven't changed to metric in the medium to small US manufacturing sphere is that no one has a real internal 'feel' for what is 30 kg, or how big is 140 mm. We weren't raised in metric, so we have no comfortable frame of reference. We could just take that leap and switch to metric - but our prices would be non-competitive and our customers (build to order, mind you) would reject them.
Ironically, while in Engineering Physics, I despised working the imperial unit problems (how many grindles in a kip again?0.
He went to the head of the line and in return, they will recieve millions in donations - and name a building after him too. And every doctor, specialist, and nurse who royally attended to him hand and foot will never have to buy another Apple trinket again.
well technically Iran is a democracy
with democratic elections
and president elected by people..
Only candidates that are approved by the real power in Iran (the Ayatollahs) are allowed to be voted for. That's why it's so foolish for Western pols (most notibly the GOP) to be touting Mousavi as a Persian Lech Walenza. You really think he and the rest of those demonstrators are Pro US? Really?
Messing with the immune system is rarely "simple".
Bingo. The unintended consequence could be a tidal wave of autoimmune diseases from lupus to arthritis. Better than dying from cancer, but the cure may come at a the high cost of a low quality of life.
is keeping anything mono-tainted out of all default installs. If users want to infect themselves with the Novel/Microsoft/Icaza virus, they should have to inflict that damage on themselves intentionally.
RMS is kind of an intolerant jerk, but I think he does have a point. Linux could end up dying at the hands of well-meaning, easily manipulated pollyannas and Benedictian insiders who took the money and ran.
"It's weird I had to solve my own medical problem."
Translation: typical US health insurance. I can only assume when she went to her GP, he told her to 'walk it off' (while insurance company vultures perched on both his shoulders).
You're close the reason. Ask yourself this question: how many actual cures have been provided by Big Pharma? I honestly can't think of any. Their business model is selling 'maintenance' drugs, not cures. Repeat customers locked in for a lifetime - literally. In the worst sense of the phrase, Big Pharma ARE Drug Dealers.
What better way to conduct revisionist history - with literally no paper trail! Someone's in the running for a Big Brother Lifetime Achievement award for this idea.
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"It's Better with Windows" /snark
IIRC, was the title of a sci-fi short story I read long ago. Though bringing it up in this thread just spoiled it for everyone who hadn't read it yet.
"Should we allow citizens be tracked in real time, just for the collection of taxes?"
It must be paid for by the complete destruction of every person's privacy*.
* - Politicians, Cyber-Security Vendors, and Fatherland Security excluded, natch.
Good to know even the 'new bosses' are in the pocket of proprietary software monopolies.
try to be slightly diabetic and cancerous too.
Then why can't I buy a PC without Windows at all? And why do I have to go through six hoops of hell to attempt a refund if I refuse the first boot EULA?
a chapter telling how to cure an Ubuntu install infected with Mono.
I work as an ME in a US manufacturing company - though it is definitely not rocket science (at times it feels like a blacksmithy with CNC machines). We rarely use metric as our customers rarely do either for the various reasons of backwards compatibilty, machinery, tooling, and especially that steel plate, bar, and tube warehouses only carry a handful of metric sizes. And ordering a custom mill run requires around 3,000 pounds per size.
But I think another good reason we haven't changed to metric in the medium to small US manufacturing sphere is that no one has a real internal 'feel' for what is 30 kg, or how big is 140 mm. We weren't raised in metric, so we have no comfortable frame of reference. We could just take that leap and switch to metric - but our prices would be non-competitive and our customers (build to order, mind you) would reject them.
Ironically, while in Engineering Physics, I despised working the imperial unit problems (how many grindles in a kip again?0.
He went to the head of the line and in return, they will recieve millions in donations - and name a building after him too. And every doctor, specialist, and nurse who royally attended to him hand and foot will never have to buy another Apple trinket again.
Only candidates that are approved by the real power in Iran (the Ayatollahs) are allowed to be voted for. That's why it's so foolish for Western pols (most notibly the GOP) to be touting Mousavi as a Persian Lech Walenza. You really think he and the rest of those demonstrators are Pro US? Really?
to the Monsanto Corporation. /Moon Whaler
Bingo. The unintended consequence could be a tidal wave of autoimmune diseases from lupus to arthritis. Better than dying from cancer, but the cure may come at a the high cost of a low quality of life.
Funny how every repressive regime from the extremely non-religous to the extremely religous are obsessed with contolling their captors' sexuality.
is keeping anything mono-tainted out of all default installs. If users want to infect themselves with the Novel/Microsoft/Icaza virus, they should have to inflict that damage on themselves intentionally.
Hush now! We have to keep the proletariat terrified or they'll start thinking
Hey, even a blind squirrel can get a tech story right once in a while.
"We won't, we won't rock you!!"
http://tim.thechases.com/mononono/
RMS is kind of an intolerant jerk, but I think he does have a point. Linux could end up dying at the hands of well-meaning, easily manipulated pollyannas and Benedictian insiders who took the money and ran.
"It's weird I had to solve my own medical problem."
Translation: typical US health insurance. I can only assume when she went to her GP, he told her to 'walk it off' (while insurance company vultures perched on both his shoulders).
Has the word 'Linux' ever passed through your lips when trying to 'educate' these people?
the TSA is still allowed to take your computer into a back room for that air-tight child porn install and frameup.
God Bless America
/sarcasm
You're close the reason. Ask yourself this question: how many actual cures have been provided by Big Pharma? I honestly can't think of any. Their business model is selling 'maintenance' drugs, not cures. Repeat customers locked in for a lifetime - literally. In the worst sense of the phrase, Big Pharma ARE Drug Dealers.
I think they should have to do more than merely changing desktop wallpaper.
What better way to conduct revisionist history - with literally no paper trail! Someone's in the running for a Big Brother Lifetime Achievement award for this idea.