Marge: Lisa, you got a letter.
Lisa: It's from my pen-pal Anya! [reads]
Anya: [voice over] Dear Lisa, as I write this, I am very sad. Our
president has been overthrown and
[voice changes to that of a man]
replaced by the benevolent general Krull. All hail Krull and his
glorious new regime! Sincerely, Little Girl.
It's the banks that are really making the money.
Yep. It's always the investors that really make the money. Most professionals do the thinking, but the money goes to the ones that know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away and know when to run.
Easy as it may sound, I'm sure it takes more than high IQs to be like that.
It isn't, but there's universal health care for anyone, no questions asked. Anyone can go to any hospital and receive a full treatment for free, regardless of his legal/illegal status or if the person pays for SS. The people that can afford private practice usually pay taxes and SS, so they're paying for something they won't use. They will go see a private doctor to be well treated and to have a nice conversation. The overwhelmed social security is more like "What are your symptoms? OK. Get this test made, take that medicine. See you in a year. Next!". But whenever people need something expensive such as an MRI or surgery, they go straight to the social security. Thus, there's private practice but mostly on the first level of attention. Hardly any place for private specialized clinics (and the only ones work hands-on with the SS).
I'm a doctor working in Spain on my way to become a neurologist. On top of the 40-hr week are 4 18-hr shifts and 2 round-the-clock-weekend shifts each month (during which I have literally no time to sleep). That makes an average of 70 hrs a week dealing with sick people and their families, which care about nothing else than getting out of the hospital or being told to stay as soon as they arrive. I earn less than 2000 euro a month, which I think doesn't add up to my years of study and qualifications (I'm 30 y/o now and still studying, speak 4 languages, supervised clinical trials, administered my University's students' sub-network while in med school, even converted 1/3 of it to Red Hat).
Socialization has made private practice here very scarce. Just for the ones wealthy enough to feel it makes sense to pay double not to be treated like cattle in a crowded hospital. I'm sure a public hospital job awaits me here, which has a low earnings ceiling.
Sometimes I wish I had followed a geeky career, but by reading/. I see it can be just the same stuff, except perhaps I could sleep at night shifts.
In Peru, US$4 can get almost any traffic cop off your back. And there was a very publicized case where a judge (we don't use juries) changed a veredict after "being gifted" a fried chicken (about U$6).
Still, the average salary in Peru is about US$100, cops make 200 a month and judges, about 800.
I agree that he was highly annoying, and maybe even prevented others from asking questions and Kerry from answering.
But so what? ... So this guy's freedom of speech is worth more than the others'? Why has it become the norm to support anyone that shows lack of civility and etiquette, or even plain violent behavior?
Because most people (average Joes) rip their CDs with WMP, which defaults to WMA. And that's because they have PCs Those that own Macs buy iPods. iPod wannabes need not apply.
Like the sticker says, your laptop was Designed for Microsoft Windows. The fact that Ubuntu boots on it is neat, and potentially even useful, but you can't expect the same level of hardware support that you get with the operating system that your hardware was designed for.
I cant believe this. Even more, I can't believe this was modded up! Are you REALLY stating that people should go look for a pc/laptop with a sticker that says "Designed for Linux/Ubuntu" in order to have a 100% working machine? M$ and Apple would love such kind of thinking from the FOSS user base.
The Ubuntu homepage says:
What is Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a community developed, linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers.
Yea. Linux and most distros are cross-platform, working on SPARC, x86, x86-64, even PPC. Still, you say they'll have issues with "Desingned for Windows nn" machines (nearly 90% of what you can buy nowadays, because they just give those stickers away)? Gimme a break.
BTW: I had the same "sleep" issue on my AMD Ahtlon XP 1800+ desktop with an MSI mainboard, standard off-the-shelf parts and no "Windows" sticker.
I've been running XP for at least 4 years without formatting, nor having a virus or spyware attack. Even though I use emule and utorrent. I run many games on it, such as Civilization 4, The Sims 2, SimCity 4000, Morrowind... I double parted for Ubuntu a year ago. Each time the kernel gets updated it updates grub.lst and erases any mention to Windows it finds. I managed to install Beryl (on my Ati Radeon Xpress 200M it wasn't easy), though an Ubuntu update killed it. The ubiquotous Broadcom wireless card runs on NdisWrapper, but I must make a lot of manual tweakings whenever I change SSIDs. Not to mention WPA. What puzzles me the most, still, is that Suspend-To-Ram and Suspend-To-Disk worked flawlessly under XP (Hibernate) from the install. Up to this day, on the other hand, my laptop won't wake up after being suspended under Ubuntu and must be rebooted.
It's been a long road, but there's still much more ahead. I know too many people that won't give up their MSN Messenger and the friends that use it (I know there's Kopete, Gaim, aMSN, etc. but they cannot have such things as an audio conversation with MSN clients). If I wanted to give up Windows completely, I'd have to pay for Cedega, pay for TurboPrint in order to use my Canon ip1200 printer, pay for a service (don't remember the name) which recognizes my modem under Linux... and still I'd have limited functionality. So long for "free as in beer". It's not about RTFM, nor about n00bs. Whenever I google a doubt there's hundreds of questions for a few valid answers.
I used to program in C++ before entering medical school, then I left programming but kept messing around with computers and became a non-official network manager at my University. First contact with Linux was Red Hat 6 or 7, don't remember well. I installed it on a Pentium II IBM and it worked flawlessly... it was very standard equipment, though. I managed to get some of those up in the internet room at the University and many people used them. There was the time when a hard disk was STOLEN and I saved the day with Knoppix. Today I'm a doctor, but on my free time I do experiments with the OSX86 project, boot Ubuntu often and yesterday I installed Solaris 10 in a VM. BUT I'm no technician nor do I have the time to "find my own free (as in freedom) way" each time something doesn't work out right from the beginning... and it still happens much more under Ubuntu than under XP.
Back in 2001, the hospital I worked in had StarOffice installed in every PC. They were Pentium I MMX IBMs. It took ages to load, and all the nurses had been trained to write their reports in it. So one day I simply opened up Window's WordPad to make a report and the Chief Nurse behind me began screaming I was a pirate because they'd been told Word had not been paid for by the hospital and therefore it could not be used. There was no way to make her understand WordPad and Word were totally different programs, nor that the former came with Windows (98). She called the Administrator to report it and have "Word" removed, not allowing me to talk to him of course.
I'm sure she must have placed the blame on me "for uninstalling it" if the Administrator came and found no "Word" on the machine...
I've been running XP for at least 4 years without formatting, nor having a virus or spyware attack. Even though I use emule and utorrent. I run many games on it, such as Civilization 4, The Sims 2, SimCity 4000, Morrowind... I double parted for Ubuntu a year ago. Each time the kernel gets updated it updates grub.lst and erases any mention to Windows it finds. I managed to install Beryl (on my Ati Radeon Xpress 200M it wasn't easy), though an Ubuntu update killed it. The ubiquotous Broadcom wireless card runs on NdisWrapper, but I must make a lot of manual tweakings whenever I change SSIDs. Not to mention WPA. What puzzles me the most, still, is that Suspend-To-Ram and Suspend-To-Disk worked flawlessly under XP (Hibernate) from the install. Up to this day, on the other hand, my laptop won't wake up after being suspended under Ubuntu and must be rebooted.
It's been a long road, but there's still much more ahead. I know too many people that won't give up their MSN Messenger and the friends that use it (I know there's Kopete, Gaim, aMSN, etc. but they cannot have such things as an audio conversation with MSN clients). If I wanted to give up Windows completely, I'd have to pay for Cedega, pay for TurboPrint in order to use my Canon ip1200 printer, pay for a service (don't remember the name) which recognizes my modem under Linux... and still I'd have limited functionality. So long for "free as in beer". It's not about RTFM, nor about n00bs. Whenever I google a doubt there's hundreds of questions for a few valid answers.
I used to program in C++ before entering medical school, then I left programming but kept messing around with computers and became a non-official network manager at my University. First contact with Linux was Red Hat 6 or 7, don't remember well. I installed it on a Pentium II IBM and it worked flawlessly... it was very standard equipment, though. I managed to get some of those up in the internet room at the University and many people used them. There was the time when a hard disk was STOLEN and I saved the day with Knoppix. Today I'm a doctor, but on my free time I do experiments with the OSX86 project, boot Ubuntu often and yesterday I installed Solaris 10 in a VM. BUT I'm no technician nor do I have the time to "find my own free (as in freedom) way" each time something doesn't work out right from the beginning... and it still happens much more under Ubuntu than under XP.
If Linux gets mainstream enough (and by this I mean Ubuntu), and the average user becomes n00b enough, I'm envisioning the next gen of trojans:
(via spam, IRC, fake forums or even Google bombing): "Want to have your Wifi/modem/video/watchamacallit fully functional under linux? Just download our DRIVER SET COMPLETELY FREE. Once downloaded, type sudo install and enter your password..."
Some years ago; Not once, but twice; I was witness of up to 7 Quantum Fireball drives, in different computers and even in different locations, all failing within the same 2 days with no S.M.A.R.T. warning.
Some of these drives had valuable data and got their circuits replaced, they worked perfectly after doing so.
When it comes to praising or publicity, everyone refers to Linux as the distros that can surf the web, read mail, create documents, act as servers, act as firewalls, etc. Alas, when it comes to defend against those that say linux is command-line intensive, has buggy and unsupported software, lacks drivers for wireless or video, is painful to install software on, etc. the answer is "Linux is only a kernel, go blame the distros".
This is the win-win scheme I've come across lots of times. And I think the first lack of consistency that must be adressed in Linux is this one. Whether it is just a kernel or a collection of distros, it should be the same for good and for bad.
I live in one of those "Evil European Welfare States" and know quite a few others. Everything works until the politicians find out they can "favor certain groups" for their share at the elections, and then give away that 50% of your income to everyone else but you. It happens all the time, and once you give a "right" it's too difficult and politically dangerous to take it away.
Slashdot Mirror
... the Internet would be just an array of tubes.
Beowulf cluster of those!
Marge: Lisa, you got a letter.
Lisa: It's from my pen-pal Anya! [reads]
Anya: [voice over] Dear Lisa, as I write this, I am very sad. Our
president has been overthrown and
[voice changes to that of a man]
replaced by the benevolent general Krull. All hail Krull and his
glorious new regime! Sincerely, Little Girl.
Yep. It's always the investors that really make the money. Most professionals do the thinking, but the money goes to the ones that know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away and know when to run.
Easy as it may sound, I'm sure it takes more than high IQs to be like that.
It isn't, but there's universal health care for anyone, no questions asked. Anyone can go to any hospital and receive a full treatment for free, regardless of his legal/illegal status or if the person pays for SS.
The people that can afford private practice usually pay taxes and SS, so they're paying for something they won't use. They will go see a private doctor to be well treated and to have a nice conversation. The overwhelmed social security is more like "What are your symptoms? OK. Get this test made, take that medicine. See you in a year. Next!".
But whenever people need something expensive such as an MRI or surgery, they go straight to the social security. Thus, there's private practice but mostly on the first level of attention. Hardly any place for private specialized clinics (and the only ones work hands-on with the SS).
I'm a doctor working in Spain on my way to become a neurologist. On top of the 40-hr week are 4 18-hr shifts and 2 round-the-clock-weekend shifts each month (during which I have literally no time to sleep). That makes an average of 70 hrs a week dealing with sick people and their families, which care about nothing else than getting out of the hospital or being told to stay as soon as they arrive. I earn less than 2000 euro a month, which I think doesn't add up to my years of study and qualifications (I'm 30 y/o now and still studying, speak 4 languages, supervised clinical trials, administered my University's students' sub-network while in med school, even converted 1/3 of it to Red Hat).
/. I see it can be just the same stuff, except perhaps I could sleep at night shifts.
Socialization has made private practice here very scarce. Just for the ones wealthy enough to feel it makes sense to pay double not to be treated like cattle in a crowded hospital. I'm sure a public hospital job awaits me here, which has a low earnings ceiling.
Sometimes I wish I had followed a geeky career, but by reading
welcome our new never falling robot overlords.
Ñapa, in turn, comes from the quechuan "yapa", which means a free extra when buying something.
The EeCC1701 runs on Linux?
...
go figure
In Peru, US$4 can get almost any traffic cop off your back. And there was a very publicized case where a judge (we don't use juries) changed a veredict after "being gifted" a fried chicken (about U$6).
Still, the average salary in Peru is about US$100, cops make 200 a month and judges, about 800.
welcome our new ORBIT see-it-all overlords.
ICANN reads NNACI
What do the israelis think about this?
uhm ... wait ... (annoyed grunt)
Nigeria
But so what?
Why has it become the norm to support anyone that shows lack of civility and etiquette, or even plain violent behavior?
Because most people (average Joes) rip their CDs with WMP, which defaults to WMA. And that's because they have PCs
Those that own Macs buy iPods. iPod wannabes need not apply.
Like the sticker says, your laptop was Designed for Microsoft Windows. The fact that Ubuntu boots on it is neat, and potentially even useful, but you can't expect the same level of hardware support that you get with the operating system that your hardware was designed for.
I cant believe this. Even more, I can't believe this was modded up! Are you REALLY stating that people should go look for a pc/laptop with a sticker that says "Designed for Linux/Ubuntu" in order to have a 100% working machine? M$ and Apple would love such kind of thinking from the FOSS user base.
The Ubuntu homepage says: What is Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a community developed, linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers.
Yea. Linux and most distros are cross-platform, working on SPARC, x86, x86-64, even PPC. Still, you say they'll have issues with "Desingned for Windows nn" machines (nearly 90% of what you can buy nowadays, because they just give those stickers away)? Gimme a break.
BTW: I had the same "sleep" issue on my AMD Ahtlon XP 1800+ desktop with an MSI mainboard, standard off-the-shelf parts and no "Windows" sticker.
I've been running XP for at least 4 years without formatting, nor having a virus or spyware attack. Even though I use emule and utorrent. I run many games on it, such as Civilization 4, The Sims 2, SimCity 4000, Morrowind ...
... and still I'd have limited functionality. So long for "free as in beer".
... it was very standard equipment, though. I managed to get some of those up in the internet room at the University and many people used them. There was the time when a hard disk was STOLEN and I saved the day with Knoppix. ... and it still happens much more under Ubuntu than under XP.
I double parted for Ubuntu a year ago. Each time the kernel gets updated it updates grub.lst and erases any mention to Windows it finds. I managed to install Beryl (on my Ati Radeon Xpress 200M it wasn't easy), though an Ubuntu update killed it. The ubiquotous Broadcom wireless card runs on NdisWrapper, but I must make a lot of manual tweakings whenever I change SSIDs. Not to mention WPA.
What puzzles me the most, still, is that Suspend-To-Ram and Suspend-To-Disk worked flawlessly under XP (Hibernate) from the install. Up to this day, on the other hand, my laptop won't wake up after being suspended under Ubuntu and must be rebooted.
It's been a long road, but there's still much more ahead. I know too many people that won't give up their MSN Messenger and the friends that use it (I know there's Kopete, Gaim, aMSN, etc. but they cannot have such things as an audio conversation with MSN clients). If I wanted to give up Windows completely, I'd have to pay for Cedega, pay for TurboPrint in order to use my Canon ip1200 printer, pay for a service (don't remember the name) which recognizes my modem under Linux
It's not about RTFM, nor about n00bs. Whenever I google a doubt there's hundreds of questions for a few valid answers.
I used to program in C++ before entering medical school, then I left programming but kept messing around with computers and became a non-official network manager at my University. First contact with Linux was Red Hat 6 or 7, don't remember well. I installed it on a Pentium II IBM and it worked flawlessly
Today I'm a doctor, but on my free time I do experiments with the OSX86 project, boot Ubuntu often and yesterday I installed Solaris 10 in a VM. BUT I'm no technician nor do I have the time to "find my own free (as in freedom) way" each time something doesn't work out right from the beginning
Back in 2001, the hospital I worked in had StarOffice installed in every PC. They were Pentium I MMX IBMs. It took ages to load, and all the nurses had been trained to write their reports in it.
...
So one day I simply opened up Window's WordPad to make a report and the Chief Nurse behind me began screaming I was a pirate because they'd been told Word had not been paid for by the hospital and therefore it could not be used. There was no way to make her understand WordPad and Word were totally different programs, nor that the former came with Windows (98). She called the Administrator to report it and have "Word" removed, not allowing me to talk to him of course.
I'm sure she must have placed the blame on me "for uninstalling it" if the Administrator came and found no "Word" on the machine
I've been running XP for at least 4 years without formatting, nor having a virus or spyware attack. Even though I use emule and utorrent. I run many games on it, such as Civilization 4, The Sims 2, SimCity 4000, Morrowind ...
... and still I'd have limited functionality. So long for "free as in beer".
... it was very standard equipment, though. I managed to get some of those up in the internet room at the University and many people used them. There was the time when a hard disk was STOLEN and I saved the day with Knoppix. ... and it still happens much more under Ubuntu than under XP.
I double parted for Ubuntu a year ago. Each time the kernel gets updated it updates grub.lst and erases any mention to Windows it finds. I managed to install Beryl (on my Ati Radeon Xpress 200M it wasn't easy), though an Ubuntu update killed it. The ubiquotous Broadcom wireless card runs on NdisWrapper, but I must make a lot of manual tweakings whenever I change SSIDs. Not to mention WPA.
What puzzles me the most, still, is that Suspend-To-Ram and Suspend-To-Disk worked flawlessly under XP (Hibernate) from the install. Up to this day, on the other hand, my laptop won't wake up after being suspended under Ubuntu and must be rebooted.
It's been a long road, but there's still much more ahead. I know too many people that won't give up their MSN Messenger and the friends that use it (I know there's Kopete, Gaim, aMSN, etc. but they cannot have such things as an audio conversation with MSN clients). If I wanted to give up Windows completely, I'd have to pay for Cedega, pay for TurboPrint in order to use my Canon ip1200 printer, pay for a service (don't remember the name) which recognizes my modem under Linux
It's not about RTFM, nor about n00bs. Whenever I google a doubt there's hundreds of questions for a few valid answers.
I used to program in C++ before entering medical school, then I left programming but kept messing around with computers and became a non-official network manager at my University. First contact with Linux was Red Hat 6 or 7, don't remember well. I installed it on a Pentium II IBM and it worked flawlessly
Today I'm a doctor, but on my free time I do experiments with the OSX86 project, boot Ubuntu often and yesterday I installed Solaris 10 in a VM. BUT I'm no technician nor do I have the time to "find my own free (as in freedom) way" each time something doesn't work out right from the beginning
If Linux gets mainstream enough (and by this I mean Ubuntu), and the average user becomes n00b enough, I'm envisioning the next gen of trojans:
..."
(via spam, IRC, fake forums or even Google bombing): "Want to have your Wifi/modem/video/watchamacallit fully functional under linux? Just download our DRIVER SET COMPLETELY FREE. Once downloaded, type sudo install and enter your password
Prior art, boys. (I hope).
Some years ago; Not once, but twice; I was witness of up to 7 Quantum Fireball drives, in different computers and even in different locations, all failing within the same 2 days with no S.M.A.R.T. warning.
Some of these drives had valuable data and got their circuits replaced, they worked perfectly after doing so.
Believe me, It was no coincidence.
When it comes to praising or publicity, everyone refers to Linux as the distros that can surf the web, read mail, create documents, act as servers, act as firewalls, etc.
Alas, when it comes to defend against those that say linux is command-line intensive, has buggy and unsupported software, lacks drivers for wireless or video, is painful to install software on, etc. the answer is "Linux is only a kernel, go blame the distros".
This is the win-win scheme I've come across lots of times. And I think the first lack of consistency that must be adressed in Linux is this one. Whether it is just a kernel or a collection of distros, it should be the same for good and for bad.
Now sum up how much they discount you for healthcare each month of your life and see how many surgeries you'd need to make ends meet.
I live in one of those "Evil European Welfare States" and know quite a few others. Everything works until the politicians find out they can "favor certain groups" for their share at the elections, and then give away that 50% of your income to everyone else but you. It happens all the time, and once you give a "right" it's too difficult and politically dangerous to take it away.