The difference? The difference is null... In Alberta Canada we just had a provincial election. Each of the 4 official parties had the EXACT same platform.
So why vote? My voice is lost because there is no one to represent it.
Oh right, I did vote, Communist. The most honest of the lot.
I do believe it is a regional thing, I phoned the Calgary office about bittorrent throttling and while they did admit to doing so, because of their traffic shaping their customers were free to torrent 24/7 without harming the neighborhood traffic.
Because the current squads of Customs and Border Protection aircraft flying over our borders are more expensive than a similar setup using automated drones.
Haven't all terrorist attacks on US soil come from people with valid US citizenship? But then I guess security is best established by pointing guns at your neighbours and telling them that you don't trust them.
I finally recycled my 450Mhz Win-98 box last year. With everyone throwing out old P-3's and 4's now, there was no reason not to collect a few and start playing with more powerful operating systems. So far I've spent less than $150 for the following systems and parts. 866Mhz Ubuntu web browser given to my brother 866Mhz OpenBSD Monowall 900Mhz Debian Lamp Stack 1.7Ghz WinXP system due to be wiped and turned into something useful 2 Ghz Ubuntu living room TV Media Center 2.5Ghz AMD64 Ubuntu Gaming system for Eve-Online
I really don't see the activation servers going down having any effect on me at all...
Because you used a publisher, you owe the publisher and are bound by the publisher's rules. The copyright infringer will be hounded by the publishers legal team. "Who's likeness and inscription is this? Then render unto the publisher the things that are (owed) the publisher"
OR
You could publish the first chapter of your novel online for FREE, and if your readers like it, then they can download the rest for a couple dollars. AND since you gave your readers what they wanted, they would come back and buy your next work, and so on.
You would be a part of the new medium, instead of clutching desperately onto a dead and wheezing business model.
Funny, last time I tried to play a WMA stream from a local radio station, both Xmms and Mplayer refused it. Just like the last time I tried to run a WMV through Mplayer, again no play.
They are both stock installs, with no added codecs. So I guess it must be FUD, since EVERY other media type seems to play just fine with those two players.
Years ago my roommate wanted to open a dayhome, and so all house occupants had to have a background check.
I failed, even though I have never been arrested, handcuffed, questioned or even seen the inside of a cop-shop or cruiser. My city phone-book has a full page of people with the same name as myself.
But to clear my name I had to be fingerprinted and ran through the police database at a nominal FEE!? I still haven't cleared my name, because I didn't do anything and won't PAY to prove my innocence.
So the roommate didn't start the dayhome, since her husband failed the background check as well.
In my teens my friends would pass around mix tapes of their favourite bands. I liked what I heard and went out to later buy all of the Metallica tapes up to the then current black album. Then Metallica started attacking those who bootlegged.
Pissed off at them and the *iaa companies that directly hurt the word of mouth that makes bands prosper. I boycotted any and all music purchases until just recently. I listened to some downloaded mp3's of a mostly unknown band called VNV Nation. And I have since bought every single album they have produced to date.
So what words do I have for "artists" like Prince? Get on stage and perform for your income, or shrivel up and blow away like every other wash-out.
It's been the 3rd party apps that have killed it for me.
Games the kids play, from barbie to spongebob all throw endless uac messages and still often freezes the system. Quickbooks required to run as admin and still throws uac messages!? Pre-installed HP Updater running amok and eating the majority of resources EVERY time it restarts.
Kids seeing the uac prompt a dozen times a day means they click accept every time. Shooting oneself in the foot security.
Vista spends it's time as a kids computer because it's mickey mouse layout makes me cringe every time I have to do actual work on it.
If your going to BC then there isn't much to worry about for farming. If you have less than a handful of plants the police won't even take them away. Because it's obviously for personal use and not worth their time.
If it was, then all of Saltspring island would be rounded up. I guess I shouldn't mention that you can sometimes find it growing wild in places...?
I have a 9 month old child, and I have no problem with him seeing tasteful porn (kama sutra, joy of sex, etc) Sex is natural, I hope he has it, and maybe even children of his own.
I do have a problem with him watching movies like saw and hostel. I hope he doesn't torture-kill people for fun
What is wrong with society that violence is fine, but sex? no we should ban that...
I am an ex-Nortel PCB-assembly operator, and a hobby IT pseudo-professional. I've worked with Windows from the 3.0 era(Norton commander worked far better), to the current Vista.
In all those years I've become very familiar with the device manager settings as the hardware was a hit or miss kind of thing. My pile of wanted but unsupported isa/pci cards was greater than the number of dishes I had in the house.
After burning about a dozen linux live-cd's, my hardware issues are now gone. I haven't had to edit any wifi files or install any drivers, the ONLY harware issue I had was the early releases of Ubuntu not enabling WPA, which is now fixed in the Feisty-Fawn release.
Over a dozen pc installs later, I have had no broken wifi.
I agree with you completely, those Get the Facts ads are both amusing and very good for getting the word out.
Never before have I had more people ask me "So what's this linux..." and "Is it as good as microsoft?"
I will concede the point that the onboard graphics may not be up to the task. But what kind of logic goes into pushing pixels so hard that the base system looks and feels unstable as a result? Most home users don't know how to disable Aero - so to them it's broken and needs to be fixed. Out of the Box should mean "Ready to Run."
Until there are Vista compatible updates, running most of my applications in administrator mode creates a nightmare of "click to continue." The system "hourglass" randomly pops up (a lot) and spins when there are no windows open or apps running. HP Advisor loads up and maxes out the cpu for at least five minutes each time it randomly activates itself. Not to mention that on every boot the message "wifi could not enable", then the network finishes loading up shared files and opens the corporate homepage with a fully functioning network connection.
As for friends systems, since spongebob squarepants requires "click to continue" in the same way as admin control!? Little junior is probably destroying the control panel settings and thus I get called back, since it's broken and needs to be fixed..
With so much damage control needed, who do we blame. Microsoft? The OEM (HP)? The user for accepting the license agreement?
Vista is not ready to be released yet. It feels far too much like WinME
If it's an OEM, Shouldn't it work out of the box? And if Xp runs quickly and efficiently, whereas Vista clunks along (Still on an OEM box) how is it not a horsepower issue?
It's not as if any Windows software would force the user to upgrade by deliberately hobbling it's older programs... (MSN Messenger) I don't have any choice in the matter, this business is stuck using Windows due to Quickbooks and other software that cannot be migrated to open source.
This is the first OS that has made me seriously regret ever telling friends and family that I work on computers.
I sysadmin a small dispatch company with 2 debian servers, 4 xp clients, and 2 vista clients. They are all media centre pc's with the same hardware. The vista machines make you feel as if you are browsing your OS while wading in molasses.
So why can't the 4GHz dual core with the 2 gig of ram make that horrid hack of code even allow you to browse the desktop smoothly?
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The difference? The difference is null...
In Alberta Canada we just had a provincial election. Each of the 4 official parties had the EXACT same platform.
So why vote? My voice is lost because there is no one to represent it.
Oh right, I did vote, Communist.
The most honest of the lot.
Funny, I've always associated "*tard" with Sony/BMG activities.
I do believe it is a regional thing,
I phoned the Calgary office about bittorrent throttling and while they did admit to doing so, because of their traffic shaping their customers were free to torrent 24/7 without harming the neighborhood traffic.
Because the current squads of Customs and Border Protection aircraft flying over our borders are more expensive than a similar setup using automated drones.
It's been ongoing for some time now.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/10/17/border-patrol.html
Haven't all terrorist attacks on US soil come from people with valid US citizenship?
But then I guess security is best established by pointing guns at your neighbours and telling them that you don't trust them.
I finally recycled my 450Mhz Win-98 box last year.
With everyone throwing out old P-3's and 4's now, there was no reason not to collect a few and start playing with more powerful operating systems.
So far I've spent less than $150 for the following systems and parts.
866Mhz Ubuntu web browser given to my brother
866Mhz OpenBSD Monowall
900Mhz Debian Lamp Stack
1.7Ghz WinXP system due to be wiped and turned into something useful
2 Ghz Ubuntu living room TV Media Center
2.5Ghz AMD64 Ubuntu Gaming system for Eve-Online
I really don't see the activation servers going down having any effect on me at all...
So the answer to all of the above steps is:
Use a *nix system....
There is another possibility, I can see a lot of support for this new RedHat system.
Pharmaceutical companies would profit from,
And Druggies would intimately relate to,
Dependency Hell
Don't forget,
due to a lack of immediately bowing to Corporate Hollywood pressure,
even Sweden was threatened with a trade embargo...
Copyright is still bad,
Because you used a publisher, you owe the publisher and are bound by the publisher's rules.
The copyright infringer will be hounded by the publishers legal team.
"Who's likeness and inscription is this? Then render unto the publisher the things that are (owed) the publisher"
OR
You could publish the first chapter of your novel online for FREE, and if your readers like it, then they can download the rest for a couple dollars. AND since you gave your readers what they wanted, they would come back and buy your next work, and so on.
You would be a part of the new medium, instead of clutching desperately onto a dead and wheezing business model.
Funny, last time I tried to play a WMA stream from a local radio station, both Xmms and Mplayer refused it.
Just like the last time I tried to run a WMV through Mplayer, again no play.
They are both stock installs, with no added codecs.
So I guess it must be FUD, since EVERY other media type seems to play just fine with those two players.
Hitler didn't believe he was evil either,
nor Stalin, Pol Pot...
The actions of a company/person decided how they are seen.
The Media companies are awash in dirty and corrupt actions.
Nah, he was killed when his shakespearian monologues droned on too long.
Yes, the Imax
Y'know the one with the big screen and really good sound? and no commercials...
I guess it must be because it's Canadian and and pirates don't believe in commercials.
Years ago my roommate wanted to open a dayhome, and so all house occupants had to have a background check.
I failed, even though I have never been arrested, handcuffed, questioned or even seen the inside of a cop-shop or cruiser.
My city phone-book has a full page of people with the same name as myself.
But to clear my name I had to be fingerprinted and ran through the police database at a nominal FEE!?
I still haven't cleared my name, because I didn't do anything and won't PAY to prove my innocence.
So the roommate didn't start the dayhome, since her husband failed the background check as well.
In my teens my friends would pass around mix tapes of their favourite bands. I liked what I heard and went out to later buy all of the Metallica tapes up to the then current black album.
Then Metallica started attacking those who bootlegged.
Pissed off at them and the *iaa companies that directly hurt the word of mouth that makes bands prosper. I boycotted any and all music purchases until just recently.
I listened to some downloaded mp3's of a mostly unknown band called VNV Nation. And I have since bought every single album they have produced to date.
So what words do I have for "artists" like Prince?
Get on stage and perform for your income, or shrivel up and blow away like every other wash-out.
It's been the 3rd party apps that have killed it for me.
Games the kids play, from barbie to spongebob all throw endless uac messages and still often freezes the system.
Quickbooks required to run as admin and still throws uac messages!?
Pre-installed HP Updater running amok and eating the majority of resources EVERY time it restarts.
Kids seeing the uac prompt a dozen times a day means they click accept every time. Shooting oneself in the foot security.
Vista spends it's time as a kids computer because it's mickey mouse layout makes me cringe every time I have to do actual work on it.
If your going to BC then there isn't much to worry about for farming.
If you have less than a handful of plants the police won't even take them away.
Because it's obviously for personal use and not worth their time.
If it was, then all of Saltspring island would be rounded up.
I guess I shouldn't mention that you can sometimes find it growing wild in places...?
I have a 9 month old child, and I have no problem with him seeing tasteful porn (kama sutra, joy of sex, etc)
Sex is natural, I hope he has it, and maybe even children of his own.
I do have a problem with him watching movies like saw and hostel.
I hope he doesn't torture-kill people for fun
What is wrong with society that violence is fine, but sex? no we should ban that...
I am an ex-Nortel PCB-assembly operator, and a hobby IT pseudo-professional.
I've worked with Windows from the 3.0 era(Norton commander worked far better), to the current Vista.
In all those years I've become very familiar with the device manager settings as the hardware was a hit or miss kind of thing. My pile of wanted but unsupported isa/pci cards was greater than the number of dishes I had in the house.
After burning about a dozen linux live-cd's, my hardware issues are now gone. I haven't had to edit any wifi files or install any drivers, the ONLY harware issue I had was the early releases of Ubuntu not enabling WPA, which is now fixed in the Feisty-Fawn release.
Over a dozen pc installs later, I have had no broken wifi.
I agree with you completely, those Get the Facts ads are both amusing and very good for getting the word out. Never before have I had more people ask me "So what's this linux..." and "Is it as good as microsoft?"
6) Prove they spy on China? And prove that Linux doesnt
Not just China, everyone. See NSAKEY
---No, no, you spelt it wrong.
It's supposed to be SNAKEY
I will concede the point that the onboard graphics may not be up to the task.
But what kind of logic goes into pushing pixels so hard that the base system looks and feels unstable as a result?
Most home users don't know how to disable Aero - so to them it's broken and needs to be fixed.
Out of the Box should mean "Ready to Run."
Until there are Vista compatible updates, running most of my applications in administrator mode creates a nightmare of "click to continue."
The system "hourglass" randomly pops up (a lot) and spins when there are no windows open or apps running.
HP Advisor loads up and maxes out the cpu for at least five minutes each time it randomly activates itself.
Not to mention that on every boot the message "wifi could not enable", then the network finishes loading up shared files and opens the corporate homepage with a fully functioning network connection.
As for friends systems, since spongebob squarepants requires "click to continue" in the same way as admin control!? Little junior is probably destroying the control panel settings and thus I get called back, since it's broken and needs to be fixed..
With so much damage control needed, who do we blame.
Microsoft?
The OEM (HP)?
The user for accepting the license agreement?
Vista is not ready to be released yet. It feels far too much like WinME
If it's an OEM, Shouldn't it work out of the box?
And if Xp runs quickly and efficiently, whereas Vista clunks along (Still on an OEM box) how is it not a horsepower issue?
It's not as if any Windows software would force the user to upgrade by deliberately hobbling it's older programs... (MSN Messenger)
I don't have any choice in the matter, this business is stuck using Windows due to Quickbooks and other software that cannot be migrated to open source.
This is the first OS that has made me seriously regret ever telling friends and family that I work on computers.
I sysadmin a small dispatch company with 2 debian servers, 4 xp clients, and 2 vista clients. They are all media centre pc's with the same hardware. The vista machines make you feel as if you are browsing your OS while wading in molasses.
So why can't the 4GHz dual core with the 2 gig of ram make that horrid hack of code even allow you to browse the desktop smoothly?
vista makes me cry
I would suggest a Google ad-phone to everyone I know...
As soon as the ad's are at the *end* of the call.