You've never invested in Apple right before MacWorld, have you? Its like profit! The way they fawn over every single product in Jobs' keynote address is CA$H
So if a guy and his sister were both made from one of these virgin cell things, then the guy got his sister pregnant would the child be genetically identical to its grandparent?
Newegg has "Home Basic" OEM for $90, and I doubt their prices are the cheapest around. And the retail is "only" $150. The price difference between vista basic in America and China is almost insignificant compared to the price difference between XP in America and China.
One well-spoken voice might convince a few that they can be pretty and smart.
The real problem is the messed up standards of attractiveness in American high schools (and I'm sure it trickles down to younger grades too). What smart girl would want to walk around looking like some sort of scantily clad makeup covered blowup doll?
Er, maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like unblocking samba when it gets installed would be a feature not a problem. Unless you have some use for samba that doesn't involve networking? I guess maybe if you were a developer and just wanted the dev packages but didn't actually want to use samba then maybe that would be a problem.....
I'm not sure what you demand of a firewall, but as far as I know Ubuntu (like every other Linux distro I have ever used) includes iptables and blocks pretty much all ports by default. If not having a shiny GUI bothers you then just install firestarter (I would imagine 'sudo aptitude install firestarter' might do the trick, or if you're afraid of command lines you could use the GUI tool).
Where are you getting those? I'm looking for a cheap desktop and those are almost exactly the specs I'm after. If Apple can refresh Mac Minis to not suck incredibly (considering what you pay for one) I would consider one for this application, but until then its going to be a PC.
The spread in cost of living in Alaska is also more than $1-2k. And its not like that money is paid by the federal government, it is a dividend on money that Alaska has invested (originally comandeered from oil companies).
Also, since I seem not to have mentioned it and no one else has either, the biggest problem with the Anchorage bridge is that it may or may not actually be technically feasible due to the crappy muddy bottom, very long distance it would span, and lots of floating ice. Thats why it costs so much, and simultaneously about the best reason to be hesitant to blow a lot of cash on it.
Actually just so we're clear, the so called bridges to nowhere weren't built.
Also describing them as "bridges to nowhere" is somewhat like describing the first Transcontinental Railroad as a "railroad to nowhere". One of the bridges in question was probably a pointless waste of money, the other would have connected a city of 300,000 people and skyrocketing property prices to a large area of undeveloped land.
It may also be instructive to note that Ben Stevens (the son of Ted Stevens, and another alaskan politician) owned a (miniscule, we're talking several acres out of hundreds of thousands, but still) portion of the aforementioned undeveloped land. >Oh, also I'm from Anchorage, not just some guy who sits around all day reading about political issues in irrelevant semi-states.
By using a secure machine?
I've never met anyone who uses encryption to prevent their computer from stealing their data. Usually you use encryption to prevent other people from accessing your data after it has been stolen.
Keeping the encryption/decryption onboard the hardware itself, and presenting a FAT32 volume achieves a good degree of software independence, because any computer capable of mounting a USB FAT32 device would work with your drive.
I know I haven't made that leap yet. As far as I know the iPhone is a phone that does X, Y, Z. It may be a full fledged computer in the same sense that an ipod is a full fledged computer, but since it can't do A, B, C or any other thing I want it to do except X, Y, and Z for practical purposes I find it a bit far fetched to describe it as a full fledged computer.
On the other hand, your description of it as a "fully-fledged computer, masquerading as a phone" might not be so bad. Masquerading means wearing a costume. The iPhone has really all it needs to become a "fully fledged computer", all that needs to be done is to rip its costume off (or just make some modifications - its UI is very attractive).
Since I've never seen a laptop where the screen was half of the thickness I don't see how making the screen thinner could make the laptop half as thick.
People don't write open source software so that others can write their own, they write it so that others will use it. Its one thing if someone is bitching about a problem they have with an open source application, but the whole point of open source is that others will use it, so you can't really criticize someone for wanting to use it.
What are "good" and "bad"? It seems to me that to assume that certain things are inherently "good" while others are inherently "bad" is to assume the existence of some higher deity, which I at least do not.
I can understand saying "__________ is a good means to acheive _________ end", but if you don't specify an end then your statement becomes nothing more than a spiritual reference.
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You've never invested in Apple right before MacWorld, have you? Its like profit! The way they fawn over every single product in Jobs' keynote address is CA$H
Why would they care whether I download it or upload it? Just so I don't do both.
So if a guy and his sister were both made from one of these virgin cell things, then the guy got his sister pregnant would the child be genetically identical to its grandparent?
Newegg has "Home Basic" OEM for $90, and I doubt their prices are the cheapest around. And the retail is "only" $150. The price difference between vista basic in America and China is almost insignificant compared to the price difference between XP in America and China.
The real problem is the messed up standards of attractiveness in American high schools (and I'm sure it trickles down to younger grades too). What smart girl would want to walk around looking like some sort of scantily clad makeup covered blowup doll?
Someone please mod that hilarious
Spoken like a true iPhone user
Er, maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like unblocking samba when it gets installed would be a feature not a problem. Unless you have some use for samba that doesn't involve networking? I guess maybe if you were a developer and just wanted the dev packages but didn't actually want to use samba then maybe that would be a problem.....
I'm not sure what you demand of a firewall, but as far as I know Ubuntu (like every other Linux distro I have ever used) includes iptables and blocks pretty much all ports by default. If not having a shiny GUI bothers you then just install firestarter (I would imagine 'sudo aptitude install firestarter' might do the trick, or if you're afraid of command lines you could use the GUI tool).
Where are you getting those? I'm looking for a cheap desktop and those are almost exactly the specs I'm after. If Apple can refresh Mac Minis to not suck incredibly (considering what you pay for one) I would consider one for this application, but until then its going to be a PC.
The spread in cost of living in Alaska is also more than $1-2k. And its not like that money is paid by the federal government, it is a dividend on money that Alaska has invested (originally comandeered from oil companies).
Also, since I seem not to have mentioned it and no one else has either, the biggest problem with the Anchorage bridge is that it may or may not actually be technically feasible due to the crappy muddy bottom, very long distance it would span, and lots of floating ice. Thats why it costs so much, and simultaneously about the best reason to be hesitant to blow a lot of cash on it.
Actually just so we're clear, the so called bridges to nowhere weren't built.
Also describing them as "bridges to nowhere" is somewhat like describing the first Transcontinental Railroad as a "railroad to nowhere". One of the bridges in question was probably a pointless waste of money, the other would have connected a city of 300,000 people and skyrocketing property prices to a large area of undeveloped land.
It may also be instructive to note that Ben Stevens (the son of Ted Stevens, and another alaskan politician) owned a (miniscule, we're talking several acres out of hundreds of thousands, but still) portion of the aforementioned undeveloped land.
>Oh, also I'm from Anchorage, not just some guy who sits around all day reading about political issues in irrelevant semi-states.
By using a secure machine? I've never met anyone who uses encryption to prevent their computer from stealing their data. Usually you use encryption to prevent other people from accessing your data after it has been stolen. Keeping the encryption/decryption onboard the hardware itself, and presenting a FAT32 volume achieves a good degree of software independence, because any computer capable of mounting a USB FAT32 device would work with your drive.
Who the hell is using skype but doesn't have access to the internet?
But Earths gravity is stronger, and its atmosphere much denser than Mars', so why could they use parachutes on Earth but not on Mars?
Why wouldn't you want DRM to be patented? The more its patented the less it can be used, thats the whole basis of IP reform.
Its interesting to note that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain#Bush_E xecutive_Orderthis wasn't Bush's first EO regarding eminent domain.
That being said, it doesn't really make any difference to any court that has ever heard of the supremacy clause.
Also interesting to note, this is exactly how Lincoln freed slaves in the Civil War. Not that this has much in common with that.
I know I haven't made that leap yet. As far as I know the iPhone is a phone that does X, Y, Z. It may be a full fledged computer in the same sense that an ipod is a full fledged computer, but since it can't do A, B, C or any other thing I want it to do except X, Y, and Z for practical purposes I find it a bit far fetched to describe it as a full fledged computer.
On the other hand, your description of it as a "fully-fledged computer, masquerading as a phone" might not be so bad. Masquerading means wearing a costume. The iPhone has really all it needs to become a "fully fledged computer", all that needs to be done is to rip its costume off (or just make some modifications - its UI is very attractive).
Since I've never seen a laptop where the screen was half of the thickness I don't see how making the screen thinner could make the laptop half as thick.
If its obvious then you can bet the government doesn't do it.
Taking what up the ass? Tux is a penguin dumbass, I'm pretty sure penguins don't have dicks (do they?)
I love how this post is modded informative.
Just give me a 150 megabit internet connection already, and to hell with trying to tie data to clunky physical mediums.
People don't write open source software so that others can write their own, they write it so that others will use it. Its one thing if someone is bitching about a problem they have with an open source application, but the whole point of open source is that others will use it, so you can't really criticize someone for wanting to use it.
What are "good" and "bad"? It seems to me that to assume that certain things are inherently "good" while others are inherently "bad" is to assume the existence of some higher deity, which I at least do not.
I can understand saying "__________ is a good means to acheive _________ end", but if you don't specify an end then your statement becomes nothing more than a spiritual reference.
Perhaps some end is implied?