dude if you yell enuff you can get what you want within reason. I have seen my friend's dad return something to fry's that he didnt even buy there! He is a consumer legend.
What are you talking about! Windows is idiot-proof. All you have to do is reboot and a lot of problems get fixed! For no reason! This was designed illogically to harness the power of the idiot! Which incidentally is the most renewable resource known to man.
is that from a desktop type user's perspective people use their computers for what? To access media (video, music, games, content creation software, internets, word processing and whatever else is in office, money management, etc.) most of those are just apps that we use. Things like games and video and sound are hardware and driver issues also. Clean those up and make the OS easy to configure and customize and the average, even slightly above average user will be happy. When we all say we want linux to be a desktop os too then you have to think of the desktop user's needs. Get those needs fulfilled and you got yourself a platform. Also standardization between distros would help. Hell I wouldnt mind if there was just one distro. Anyway apps win the platform. If everything runs on linux then it is the platform of choice. Not everything I use runs on linux but everything I use DOES run in windows. I just dont like how much of a pig windows is so I only boot into it to use specific apps. Games will come to linux when there is enough market saturation to intice devs to make linux ports of their games. There isnt even enough mac users to get that to happen for osx! Maybe if some investors put forth the money to get games developed for linux then that could start a movement in the games industry. All that is needed is the right kind of metrics to show that enough users are playing games in linux. That and a nice dev environment like visual studio. I dont know everything in the world but this is the way I see things. Another comment earlier mentioned a linux website to help people get into linux. I think this is a good idea. A big problem with people not switching is that nobody that isnt totally cool and computer savy knows what linux even is! Advertisment would help a lot.
Wasn't R2D2's arm tool good enuff? it did everything! and you can be a total hax0r with it! open security doors and whatever! Stop making an arm. Make a Swiss ARMy knife!
This should be construed as some sort of racism or something. The FBI (or whoever is writing the software) should be required to make a multi platform software in this event. Its the government, they cant side with a corporation. At least not this openly!
The main problem I see with the govt trying to get people to do things that they dont want to do is that for the most part the restriction is set but there is no alternative release outlet. For example you bring up the speeding and racing laws are always failing, more specifically racing is the real troublesome problem. There are no real accessible outlets for non pro racing that are cheap and local. Basically whats cheaper (if you dont get caught) that public roads! Race tracks are usually far away from residential areas due to noise and other ordinances and they are really big. Small local tracks would be a good idea. People could go and just have fun when the need for speed arises. Also, track days and autocross are not happening every day, especially after work hours.
anyway, thats my 2 cents.
dark fiber isn't unlit fiber. They are conduits of Ninja Hacker(tm) black magics. Google doesn't control page rank, it's secret Ninja Hacker dark fiber techniques!
yea we had sheets done up for that! we also changed the rules so everything was counted by seconds instead of turns and one person was appointed the "combat master" to keep track of the time.
we would probably be successful if we didn't wage a war for our prior way of life and instead actually tried to achieve it. War only makes a mess. Its just sad that "America" is now just an idea that America needs to live up to.
Defamation should be added to the list! They have proclaimed that so many of us are pirates! when it is obvious that we all don't sail around not getting our vitamin c and having gay sex with our ship mates!
its the same thing as when someone in the office knows just enough to be dangerous. The people that know their stuff usually are doing work. The idiots are doing their work. The ones with like an ounce of knowledge on a subject but arent smart enough to keep learning go and use that ounce in a very reckless capacity. Same for delusional politicians. sort of, i guess.
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dude if you yell enuff you can get what you want within reason. I have seen my friend's dad return something to fry's that he didnt even buy there! He is a consumer legend.
What are you talking about! Windows is idiot-proof. All you have to do is reboot and a lot of problems get fixed! For no reason! This was designed illogically to harness the power of the idiot! Which incidentally is the most renewable resource known to man.
is that from a desktop type user's perspective people use their computers for what? To access media (video, music, games, content creation software, internets, word processing and whatever else is in office, money management, etc.) most of those are just apps that we use. Things like games and video and sound are hardware and driver issues also. Clean those up and make the OS easy to configure and customize and the average, even slightly above average user will be happy. When we all say we want linux to be a desktop os too then you have to think of the desktop user's needs. Get those needs fulfilled and you got yourself a platform. Also standardization between distros would help. Hell I wouldnt mind if there was just one distro. Anyway apps win the platform. If everything runs on linux then it is the platform of choice. Not everything I use runs on linux but everything I use DOES run in windows. I just dont like how much of a pig windows is so I only boot into it to use specific apps. Games will come to linux when there is enough market saturation to intice devs to make linux ports of their games. There isnt even enough mac users to get that to happen for osx! Maybe if some investors put forth the money to get games developed for linux then that could start a movement in the games industry. All that is needed is the right kind of metrics to show that enough users are playing games in linux. That and a nice dev environment like visual studio. I dont know everything in the world but this is the way I see things. Another comment earlier mentioned a linux website to help people get into linux. I think this is a good idea. A big problem with people not switching is that nobody that isnt totally cool and computer savy knows what linux even is! Advertisment would help a lot.
hopefully we run out of gas by then! I want easy retail access to high density, fast charging batteries for cheap! Electric cars ftw!
What so Sam shoots first? (and by shoot I mean in Frodo's face)
and its a waste of processor cycles! precious cycles...
fo seryus!
This is KENYA!!!
Wasn't R2D2's arm tool good enuff? it did everything! and you can be a total hax0r with it! open security doors and whatever! Stop making an arm. Make a Swiss ARMy knife!
just when he gets the chance to get a life he is not allowed to leave his house!
This should be construed as some sort of racism or something. The FBI (or whoever is writing the software) should be required to make a multi platform software in this event. Its the government, they cant side with a corporation. At least not this openly!
The main problem I see with the govt trying to get people to do things that they dont want to do is that for the most part the restriction is set but there is no alternative release outlet. For example you bring up the speeding and racing laws are always failing, more specifically racing is the real troublesome problem. There are no real accessible outlets for non pro racing that are cheap and local. Basically whats cheaper (if you dont get caught) that public roads! Race tracks are usually far away from residential areas due to noise and other ordinances and they are really big. Small local tracks would be a good idea. People could go and just have fun when the need for speed arises. Also, track days and autocross are not happening every day, especially after work hours. anyway, thats my 2 cents.
you will need to get a lot of cpu coolers!
They took a note from the FOSS community and decided that needless forking was the answer.
dark fiber isn't unlit fiber. They are conduits of Ninja Hacker(tm) black magics. Google doesn't control page rank, it's secret Ninja Hacker dark fiber techniques!
yea we had sheets done up for that! we also changed the rules so everything was counted by seconds instead of turns and one person was appointed the "combat master" to keep track of the time.
dont forget people who love games but hate computers!
Ahh, Dark Sun, I think that was the last campaign setting I used since I started developing my own settings. Dark Sun was good times.
we would probably be successful if we didn't wage a war for our prior way of life and instead actually tried to achieve it. War only makes a mess. Its just sad that "America" is now just an idea that America needs to live up to.
yea but as a country America is dumb enough to recede into a dark age. If we screw up now we might never see the light of day!
damn us dorks shouldn't have ever showed all our non computer savy friends the wonderful world of bittorrent!
Defamation should be added to the list! They have proclaimed that so many of us are pirates! when it is obvious that we all don't sail around not getting our vitamin c and having gay sex with our ship mates!
dont forget generating revenue for the whole automobile repair industry! You gotta get cars to break to make money!
its the same thing as when someone in the office knows just enough to be dangerous. The people that know their stuff usually are doing work. The idiots are doing their work. The ones with like an ounce of knowledge on a subject but arent smart enough to keep learning go and use that ounce in a very reckless capacity. Same for delusional politicians. sort of, i guess.
"People that run and hide aren't people that we need around" yea, these colors don't run... .