And that point doesn't refute my assertion. People here are categorically mediocre, some better, some worse. People in India are absolutely the scrapings below the bottom of the barrel. The fact that some of the pathetic ones can escape only strengthens my assertion ad logicam.
Oh come off it, 75% of indian technical graduates aren't qualified to work ANYWHERE. The other 25% are mostly subpar, and nearly 100% of those that are ANY good at all come over here to take jobs in the US. If you're an Indian in a technical field working in India its because you don't know your ass from a hole in the ground.
Any time we outsource any development, it takes six times the time, which really negates the fact that the developers make 1/3rd the salary. Oh and to boot anytime we actually get someone to be productive, the leave to take a better job, HERE IN THE STATES.
Are the purposes REALLY "intensive"? That's a mangling of "for all INTENTS AND PURPOSES". I'm normally not a nazi, but when you're being picky about grammar yourself in the sig, its too hard to resist.
Because it's a shit statistic and can't be trusted. Particularly since the entire world doesn't make the measure using the same measuring stick. From here...
While the United States reports every case of infant mortality, it has been suggested that some other developed countries do not. A 2006 article in U.S. News & World Report claims that "First, it's shaky ground to compare U.S. infant mortality with reports from other countries. The United States counts all births as live if they show any sign of life, regardless of prematurity or size. This includes what many other countries report as stillbirths. In Austria and Germany, fetal weight must be at least 500 grams (1 pound) to count as a live birth; in other parts of Europe, such as Switzerland, the fetus must be at least 30 centimeters (12 inches) long. In Belgium and France, births at less than 26 weeks of pregnancy are registered as lifeless. And some countries don't reliably register babies who die within the first 24 hours of birth. Thus, the United States is sure to report higher infant mortality rates. For this very reason, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which collects the European numbers, warns of head-to-head comparisons by country." [2] However, all of the countries named adopted the WHO definition in the late 1980s or early 1990s
Pay close attention to what you copy/paste, the last sentence refutes your point (I was reading the same article).
However, all of the countries named adopted the WHO definition in the late 1980s or early 1990s
So, since the early 1990's its a perfectly valid statistic since the exact concerns outlined above were addressed in reporting countries that are compiled to generate data.
So you are as responsible as anyone else for the "sprawl" then eh? -- since you're feeding it and all.
The situation regarding housing prices was in full swing before I moved here. I chose to reduce my impact by buying an affordable house built in 1934 rather than having a contracting company build me a tiny one that I would need to relocate away from the moment I decided to procreate. Sorry, but I find $200k for a 1200 square foot home a bit unacceptable for an ~$70k/year salary. I ended up in the community I live in after a nearly year long job search. My skills are in demand here, I don't choose that, it chooses me.
Yes, a social safety net is great. We've already got a bunch of them. There's a social safety net every step along the way of life in America. There's child services, there's welfare, there's housing assistance, there's medicaide, etc. Where's the problem?
If we had a proper social safety net, we wouldn't have children dying of neglect in the most "advanced" nation on Earth. That's the problem, I stated it before you asked. We rank 29th amongst industrialized nations (behind such greats as Cuba mind you) in infant mortality. How can you live with that and not be outraged? I play the hand I'm dealt, but that doesn't mean I can't work to change things by voting my conscience and seeing to it that those on the county board and city planning commission know my thoughts. You can take me for naive, but I simply think you're jaded, lazy, greedy, and cruel.
Um. Ok. Of course you *could* move out of the sprawl somewhere where you could commute with no petrol footprint. Ah...nevermind. That would require you to *do* something.
And, further, I commute on a motorcycle instead of inside a giant SUV so that my footprint is drastically reduced. Don't point fingers unless you know where they're pointed.
Um. Ok. Of course you *could* move out of the sprawl somewhere where you could commute with no petrol footprint. Ah...nevermind. That would require you to *do* something.
Actually, I live near the city center where things are, but the job that I have is outside of town. Also, housing prices near my job have spiked due to the number of people looking for housing near there, so I (like many people in other parts of the country) live where the housing is affordable.
OMFG. OMFG. You must be a youngster. If you think it's immoral, then I assume that you're giving all of your non-essential moneys to the poor and volunteering all of your spare time to shelters, food kitchens, etc. But, of course, no...you're not. You just think that the government should take care of everybody. (I assume you think that by your comments) How about this...how about everybody takes responsibility for what they do and when the consequences pile up, suck it up and accept them. Can't afford to feed a child? Don't have one or give it up for adoption. Can't afford a car? Don't buy one. Bought one anyways, and now you can't afford health insurance...die already.
Well, since you decided to ask. I do volunteer my time and was giving a good deal of money to worthy causes up until my financial situation changed recently. Glad you can ASSume though. I don't live in a glass house, which is why I stand up to throw stones. What, pray tell, do YOU do?
God knows that ALL children are planned, don't you see that a social safety net provides a better and safer society for YOU to live in since desperate people do desperate things? I would rather be taxed and have less people on the edge of crime for survival than keep my spoils and have to build a fortress to keep the world out.
Which is not to say that the Republican party and its conservative ideals are without merit. The country at this time is severely divided, and it has been the steady hand promised by Obama that has been able to attract voters this year. However, most people believe in smaller government, in a government that is less intrusive, and in free markets. Where we may disagree is in degree, but at its core, the Republican stance has always been these three pillars.
I guess I'm not most people then. I see that free markets CAN NOT work in situations where meaningful competition cannot exist. These things are best left in public hands. Electric utility deregulation is a very good example of this. Here in Illinois, we deregulated and now have Cilco the generation company making money hand over fist while Cilco the delivery company comes to the state with their hands out pleading poverty to jack our rates up 50%.
I believe healthcare and related insurance is another example where meaningful competition is not possible. I also happen to be far more liberal than the average bear and believe that I can't see meaningful competition in things like gasoline below a certain level since I MUST drive to work and to function in America's misguided sprawl.
I think it is IMMORAL that we live in the richest, most consumer driven society in the world yet we have children going to sleep tonight hungry, sick, and neglected. We should not stand for this as a people and I will vote my conscience.
Canonical did nearly 0 of anything that isn't generic in that Xorg.conf. nVidia did some lifting sure, but that's not even out of Canonical's repos. Are you telling me that gentoo isn't using the autoconfigure thats INSIDE the most recent versions of xorg?
Oh, and before you complain more, if you double click on a.deb package on your desktop, it asks for your password and brings up a handy dialog with a big button saying "Install". How much simpler do you need it?
Yes, but your argument wears thin given that this is simply the DEFAULT config. Want command line tools? USE THEM, as the GP said, they are still there! It's Debian at its base and stripping off bloat is a simple sudo apt-get remove foo away.
I like that the default bunch of apps tends to just work and if I want something leaner, I'm free to tweak away, that's what has always drawn me to Ubuntu (away from Gentoo where all I did was tweak instead of use my computer).
Why upgrade an existing system to this release? I have a working, nicely functional laptop that has support for the next three years for security updates, why should I hop on the update treadmill again and deal with upgrade headaches every six months? I like where I got Hardy (after waiting through 4 releases to get to another LTS).
Not to feed the trolls, but Mumia Abu Jamal was arrested and held under the authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Obama, as President of the United States, cannot pardon him for a State offense, only a federal one:
2. Federal convictions only
Under the Constitution, only federal criminal convictions, such as those obtained in the United States District Courts, may be pardoned by the President. In addition, the President's pardon power extends to convictions obtained in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and military court-martial proceedings. However, the President cannot pardon a state criminal offense. Accordingly, if you are seeking clemency for a state criminal conviction, you should not complete and submit this petition. Instead, you should contact the Governor or other appropriate authorities of the state where you reside or where the conviction occurred (such as the state board of pardons and paroles) to determine whether any relief is available to you under state law. If you have a federal conviction, information about the conviction may be obtained from the clerk of the federal court where you were convicted.
Hell, I work in an office and can't "get to the bank to do my business" much less the podunk post office. The bank is open 10-5 and the Post office 9-3. Wish I could make a full time salary for those hours. Ever heard of saturdays?
But, how can it be a war between the Empire and the Sith if the Empire doesn't rise until Episode 3 and this is set "thousands of years before the rise of Darth Vader" at the height of the Old Republic? Sounds like its a war between the REPUBLIC and the Sith as seen in KoTOR.
I don't pick the tools they make me use here, I just use them. I was SO freaking happy to get Word 2003 because of that problem you wouldn't believe it. Now at home its all Linux outside of the Xbox360 and Wii. Here I'm just a peon, at home I can dictate what software gets installed.
Office (or at least Word) 2003 has ONE invaluable feature that Office 2000 doesn't. It actually understands its file format well enough to open and recover a corrupted file instead of having a corrupted word file (which large ones ALMOST ALWAYS get) cause random crashes and unexplained formatting behavior.
Now granted, you can't really sell a product on the fact that it knows how shitty its file format is and can compensate if you specifically tell it to do so, but at least I can write a test plan that doesn't melt.
There will always be 32 bit code around for those things that really don't get any advantage from a 64 bit rewrite. If you want to run a pure 64 bit system, it likely won't be a desktop system any time very soon.
Its demand that creates things, not *not wanting to run any 32 bit code* for reasons unknown since you get no discernable advantage in some applications by rewriting it to be 64 bit (esp if you made the pointer/int interchangability mistake in your code).
I can't really speak to the quality of the KDE packages in Ubuntu as the little bit I dip my toes into KDE is mainly for KDE apps. Gnome fills my needs and stays out of my way. Ubuntu has a great community around it and googling for [Problem related to linux] ubuntu tends to net me a solution. The distro lines up fairly well with my values; present open source libre solutions first, if those don't work, fine give me a proprietary solution that's free and unsupported.
I agree that having companies around like Novell and Redhat are invaluable, but I will likely never run those distros for one large reason. Their community support (Redhat's at the very least and I would be surprised if SUSE's is any better) sucks because its a distro for kernel hacking developers. If you can't make something work you're hosed, because no one on the irc channels nor the forums will respond without taking a piece out of you for not knowing exactly what you're doing.
Feel free to correct me if I'm off base in SUSE's case, but that's what has kept me happy in Ubuntu-land. It doesn't have the garbage package maintenance of Gentoo (nor the ricers) and its friendly to those that like to tinker and break things.
Unfortunately, a lot of us won't touch anything SUSE with a ten foot pole since the whole MS patent swap. If you don't like Ubuntu's package maintainers, there's always Debian.
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And that point doesn't refute my assertion. People here are categorically mediocre, some better, some worse. People in India are absolutely the scrapings below the bottom of the barrel. The fact that some of the pathetic ones can escape only strengthens my assertion ad logicam.
Oh come off it, 75% of indian technical graduates aren't qualified to work ANYWHERE. The other 25% are mostly subpar, and nearly 100% of those that are ANY good at all come over here to take jobs in the US. If you're an Indian in a technical field working in India its because you don't know your ass from a hole in the ground.
Any time we outsource any development, it takes six times the time, which really negates the fact that the developers make 1/3rd the salary. Oh and to boot anytime we actually get someone to be productive, the leave to take a better job, HERE IN THE STATES.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unary_numeral_system
Are the purposes REALLY "intensive"? That's a mangling of "for all INTENTS AND PURPOSES". I'm normally not a nazi, but when you're being picky about grammar yourself in the sig, its too hard to resist.
Pay close attention to what you copy/paste, the last sentence refutes your point (I was reading the same article).
So, since the early 1990's its a perfectly valid statistic since the exact concerns outlined above were addressed in reporting countries that are compiled to generate data.
The situation regarding housing prices was in full swing before I moved here. I chose to reduce my impact by buying an affordable house built in 1934 rather than having a contracting company build me a tiny one that I would need to relocate away from the moment I decided to procreate. Sorry, but I find $200k for a 1200 square foot home a bit unacceptable for an ~$70k/year salary. I ended up in the community I live in after a nearly year long job search. My skills are in demand here, I don't choose that, it chooses me.
If we had a proper social safety net, we wouldn't have children dying of neglect in the most "advanced" nation on Earth. That's the problem, I stated it before you asked. We rank 29th amongst industrialized nations (behind such greats as Cuba mind you) in infant mortality. How can you live with that and not be outraged?
I play the hand I'm dealt, but that doesn't mean I can't work to change things by voting my conscience and seeing to it that those on the county board and city planning commission know my thoughts. You can take me for naive, but I simply think you're jaded, lazy, greedy, and cruel.
And, further, I commute on a motorcycle instead of inside a giant SUV so that my footprint is drastically reduced. Don't point fingers unless you know where they're pointed.
Actually, I live near the city center where things are, but the job that I have is outside of town. Also, housing prices near my job have spiked due to the number of people looking for housing near there, so I (like many people in other parts of the country) live where the housing is affordable.
Well, since you decided to ask. I do volunteer my time and was giving a good deal of money to worthy causes up until my financial situation changed recently. Glad you can ASSume though. I don't live in a glass house, which is why I stand up to throw stones. What, pray tell, do YOU do?
God knows that ALL children are planned, don't you see that a social safety net provides a better and safer society for YOU to live in since desperate people do desperate things? I would rather be taxed and have less people on the edge of crime for survival than keep my spoils and have to build a fortress to keep the world out.
I guess I'm not most people then. I see that free markets CAN NOT work in situations where meaningful competition cannot exist. These things are best left in public hands. Electric utility deregulation is a very good example of this. Here in Illinois, we deregulated and now have Cilco the generation company making money hand over fist while Cilco the delivery company comes to the state with their hands out pleading poverty to jack our rates up 50%.
I believe healthcare and related insurance is another example where meaningful competition is not possible. I also happen to be far more liberal than the average bear and believe that I can't see meaningful competition in things like gasoline below a certain level since I MUST drive to work and to function in America's misguided sprawl.
I think it is IMMORAL that we live in the richest, most consumer driven society in the world yet we have children going to sleep tonight hungry, sick, and neglected. We should not stand for this as a people and I will vote my conscience.
Canonical did nearly 0 of anything that isn't generic in that Xorg.conf. nVidia did some lifting sure, but that's not even out of Canonical's repos. Are you telling me that gentoo isn't using the autoconfigure thats INSIDE the most recent versions of xorg?
If you have the CD, which does happen, its exactly the same as described above. Navigate to foo.deb. Double click. Enter password. Click Install.
Compare apples to apples. How much easier is the process than downloading foo_installer.exe from wherever (same) now how about the install process?
Gee, On Win you click, click, click, click, click, click, reboot, clean up the mess, configure, maybe reboot again.
Ubuntu, click, enter password, click install, click ok when done, use program.
Oh, and before you complain more, if you double click on a .deb package on your desktop, it asks for your password and brings up a handy dialog with a big button saying "Install". How much simpler do you need it?
Gosh this was hard to find, I typed into the google search bar on firefox:
ubuntu install program
and was directed to a very handy documentation site run by, of all people, canonical.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoftwareManagement
Yes, but your argument wears thin given that this is simply the DEFAULT config. Want command line tools? USE THEM, as the GP said, they are still there! It's Debian at its base and stripping off bloat is a simple sudo apt-get remove foo away.
I like that the default bunch of apps tends to just work and if I want something leaner, I'm free to tweak away, that's what has always drawn me to Ubuntu (away from Gentoo where all I did was tweak instead of use my computer).
OK, that one is sadly enough to make me start rethinking my LTS strategy.... grr.. stupid bugfixes.
Why upgrade an existing system to this release? I have a working, nicely functional laptop that has support for the next three years for security updates, why should I hop on the update treadmill again and deal with upgrade headaches every six months? I like where I got Hardy (after waiting through 4 releases to get to another LTS).
Not to feed the trolls, but Mumia Abu Jamal was arrested and held under the authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Obama, as President of the United States, cannot pardon him for a State offense, only a federal one:
Source: http://www.usdoj.gov/pardon/pardon_instructions.htm
Hell, I work in an office and can't "get to the bank to do my business" much less the podunk post office. The bank is open 10-5 and the Post office 9-3. Wish I could make a full time salary for those hours. Ever heard of saturdays?
But, how can it be a war between the Empire and the Sith if the Empire doesn't rise until Episode 3 and this is set "thousands of years before the rise of Darth Vader" at the height of the Old Republic? Sounds like its a war between the REPUBLIC and the Sith as seen in KoTOR.
I don't pick the tools they make me use here, I just use them. I was SO freaking happy to get Word 2003 because of that problem you wouldn't believe it. Now at home its all Linux outside of the Xbox360 and Wii. Here I'm just a peon, at home I can dictate what software gets installed.
Office (or at least Word) 2003 has ONE invaluable feature that Office 2000 doesn't. It actually understands its file format well enough to open and recover a corrupted file instead of having a corrupted word file (which large ones ALMOST ALWAYS get) cause random crashes and unexplained formatting behavior.
Now granted, you can't really sell a product on the fact that it knows how shitty its file format is and can compensate if you specifically tell it to do so, but at least I can write a test plan that doesn't melt.
There will always be 32 bit code around for those things that really don't get any advantage from a 64 bit rewrite. If you want to run a pure 64 bit system, it likely won't be a desktop system any time very soon.
Its demand that creates things, not *not wanting to run any 32 bit code* for reasons unknown since you get no discernable advantage in some applications by rewriting it to be 64 bit (esp if you made the pointer/int interchangability mistake in your code).
DEAL WITH IT.
I'm pretty sure you already do run it NAIVELY it you think that you need it to be 64 bit!
I can't really speak to the quality of the KDE packages in Ubuntu as the little bit I dip my toes into KDE is mainly for KDE apps. Gnome fills my needs and stays out of my way. Ubuntu has a great community around it and googling for [Problem related to linux] ubuntu tends to net me a solution. The distro lines up fairly well with my values; present open source libre solutions first, if those don't work, fine give me a proprietary solution that's free and unsupported.
I agree that having companies around like Novell and Redhat are invaluable, but I will likely never run those distros for one large reason. Their community support (Redhat's at the very least and I would be surprised if SUSE's is any better) sucks because its a distro for kernel hacking developers. If you can't make something work you're hosed, because no one on the irc channels nor the forums will respond without taking a piece out of you for not knowing exactly what you're doing.
Feel free to correct me if I'm off base in SUSE's case, but that's what has kept me happy in Ubuntu-land. It doesn't have the garbage package maintenance of Gentoo (nor the ricers) and its friendly to those that like to tinker and break things.
Unfortunately, a lot of us won't touch anything SUSE with a ten foot pole since the whole MS patent swap. If you don't like Ubuntu's package maintainers, there's always Debian.