Try working as a mail admin for awhile. The guy WAS being restrained. I could use much worse language and still get nowhere near the grief and frustration spammers cause me.
You aren't the sort most of us have big problems with. You mentioned a "visa" after all. The ones that hop the border then fly Mexican flags in protest when they discover we aren't all swimmingly happy about them being here on the other hand....... And don't me started on "La Reconquista" and how reputably Southern Mexicans like to bitch about "Undocumentados".
Not necessarily. Linux is supplied with things like EEE PCs and we'll be seeing it on more and more phones and portable devices. It isn't going to storm big desktop PCs and full size laptops anytime soon but nonetheless devices capable of running general Linux apps are falling into more and more consumer hands. Furthermore, so-called "Linux Desktop" apps are becoming ever more polished and finding their way onto Windows installs. A multitude commonly using such apps would be very frightening for Microsoft. It sets up a situation where the next new computer might not need to run MS. It's what MS did to the old-line IT vendors as a young feisty company and a situation is developing where it could be done to them.
Comets crash into things quite often, and should be extinct by now if the solar system is millions of years old. The Oort cloud theory suggest that a cloud of matter 50000 AU away is replenishing our supply, but it doesn't provide a plausible mechanism for launching comets out of the cloud and into the inner solar system (at least, from what I have read about it).
Two issues. First off, the Oort cloud occupies the outermost regions of the area defined by the Sun's gravitational field. At that distance, things like other stars and gas and dust clouds the solar system is passing through as it orbits the galactic center can easily perturb the multitude of small bodies within it. That seems very plausible to me. Secondly, current astronomical consensus holds that most short period comets have their origins in the Kuiper belt which is just beyond Neptune's orbit. You can read all about this here:
but I'll quote a short excerpt for immediate convenience:
but modern studies of short-period comets have identified their probable origin in a region of space now named the Kuiper Belt, which resembles a flattened ring just beyond the orbit of Neptune. Computer simulations show that such a source would account beautifully for the low-inclination, short-period, prograde orbits, and other features associated with short-period comets. The Kuiper Belt probably has anywhere from 100 million to several billion comets, which probably formed there when the planets formed. The gradual pull of the giant gas planets over time continually send a few of those comets towards the sun. Thus, the short-period comets are replenished from the Kuiper Belt. The Kuiper Belt is no longer "just" a theoretical construct. As of 1998, more than 60 of the larger objects in the Kuiper Belt have been directly observed! That translates to some 70,000 objects out there whose diameter exceeds a whopping 100 kilometers--not to mention countless numbers of normal-sized comets. Jim Foley was kind enough to pass along an Internet site for those of you who may be interested in these new discoveries. The Kuiper Belt web page (http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~jewitt/kb.html) is maintained by David Jewitt, who personally discovered many of these objects.
I suggest this link as a reputable starting point on the science of comets:
The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is a better one up to and including the multi-continent spanning Complaints Department that had the sign that spelled "Go Stick Your Head In A Pig" after it collapsed.
The core is but Silverlight can easily make direct use of Windows API calls. MS will go out of their way to make impure Silverlight use the norm. This thing is a trojan horse to needing Windows to use the web.
Adobe appears to be moving away from PDF as "electronic paper" to "all singing all dancing Internet Document". You can now embed movies, audio, and javascript in PDF to make some sort of "active document". Personally, I think PDF has jumped the shark.
I don't think that there is any variation in the facts. Amarok's features are buggy and incomplete. Development of the current branch has stopped and a new even more backward and more buggy branch now consumes development resources. There's great amounts of fanfare even though it is presently a major step backwards.
It works and works well for me including a number of players I've thrown at it (including iPods, one of Creative's nasty little players, and my favorite "just use the filemanager"-type players). That is "variation in the facts". It is indisputable that it does everything I want it to do well. You seems to dislike it as much as I like it. I've even had the developers respond to my bugreports with relevant fixes; that may have something to do with my positive experience: I did more that whinge and tell everybody who would listen how much it sucks. I know Apple could give a damn about my experiences with the banner-ad ridden iTunes.
I'm not even going to touch KDE4 until a later release is packaged by Ubuntu. That may have something with my positive experiences too. I don't use the flavor of the week from Sourceforge. I use things that have steady maintainership and have some maturity. Amarok's been around for three years and I saw it go from something your description is fair about to something that it isn't.
Don't tell me it never works when it does for me everyday. As for the past ten users, I've been using Macs, Windows, and Linux Linux apps and ease-of-use have in fact improved, I can't say the same for Windows, and OS X has been a mixed bag. Leopard certainly wasn't more usable than Tiger for me; the new Dock and icon theme is a disaster. If you have a need to believe Linux sucks and always will forever-and-ever-without-end-AMEN then more power to you but don't assume that is everyone else's experience.
This looks like a case of YMMV. My experiences with iTunes make me want to gouge my eyes out with a fork when I use it while Amarok does a good job of getting out of my way and letting me listen to music.
First of all, I don't want to use Vista. I now run a half crippled XP because HP refuse point blank to supply XP drivers for this model.
This doesn't necessarily mean that the drivers don't exist. They'll be harder to find though. Here's what you do:
1. Go to Control Panel -> System 2. Click on the Hardware tab 3. Click the Device Manager button 4. For each device with a Red X or Yellow !
a. Right Click and get Properties
b. Click the Details tab
c. Select "Matching Device ID" from the dropdown.
5. Shake Google for those Strings. Sometimes you'll hit paydirt just searching for the part before the ampersand.
You can also use tools like AIDA32 and Unknown Device Identifier to identify the hardware. Once you've identified your hardware, you'll probably do OK with the actual manufacturer's reference drivers. While it's possible that a vendor like HP is using slightly bastardized versions of standard chipsets that thus require custom drivers, that usually isn't the case. You may even be able to get the drivers from HP themselves if there are similar models that were supplied with XP.
He got pissy with a trollistic post first. Read the parent. When Windows fans are polite, then I'm polite. When a post comes off like it was written by a parental basement dweller who thinks his experience reflects everybody's then I roast and toast accordingly. I know there is hardware that Linux doesn't support. That is a reality I've run into myself. It isn't the fault of hard working hackers that they haven't reversed engineered every piece of hardware put out by obstinate and difficult vendors. The rather large swath of hardware that DOES work is a testament to their good efforts and the efforts of others that get some specs released.
He had a bad experience with some unsupported (and unspecified) hardware and cast blame where it doesn't belong. It's a matter of both tone and clue. He has the use of neither. The nice way he could have handled it was to post the model of machine to an appropriate forum so that others who want to try Linux might get to avoid that hardware. Instead, he employed an insult: "Call me when Linux is ready for prime time." Or he could have at least dispensed with that last little comment entirely. The whole way he went about it is utterly devoid of both information and civility.
BTW, the quick test is to use a recent LiveCD to boot the prospective hardware. If that doesn't work or at least mostly work then give an install on that piece of kit a pass. You're not out much that way. And yes, it is necessary to buy hardware that is supported. It's much much easier than it used to be though there still are a few recalcitrant vendors who provide neither drivers or specs.
Incidentally, I spend quite a bit of time cleaning up the Windows hassles of others. It simply isn't so that Windows is compatible computing nirvana while Linux by contrast is utter junk that doesn't run on anything, The truth isn't nearly as neat or black and white I suspect both you and the parent poster are still too young to have learned that yet.
New laptop you say? If you truly intended to install Linux on this from the outset then you would have shopped more carefully as there are new laptops that Linux supports well. It isn't the fault of Linux that off-brand laptops are still packed with embedded bargain bin hardware.
They'd be sending letters demanding royalties and quoting patent numbers, and filing infringement cases when violators refused to pay. They haven't.
They're doing something much smarter. They're approaching Linux distros and companies that use Linux in their products and making slimy threats behind closed doors. SCO taught them that a loud public strategy like the one you mention arouses both the community and targets better able to defend themselves. And what do you know, that defense reaction turned out to be formidable. SCO certainly didn't succeed in trying the case in the tech press. So they are sizing up and approaching softer targets one by one and we don't hear about it until the press release from yet another company that made a "patent covenant" with MS.
The hardware may be abstracted as you say but something has to drive it and something has to host all those wonderful databases and scripting languages. The OS proper may matter less and less to the end user but it will still damn well matter to those who maintain the servers. It will have to be robust, it will have to handle many sorts of loads, and it will have to scale. No, in your picture the "server" in client/server is still going to very much matter.
2K and XP don't implement all singing all dancing 3D desktops. Compiz and Vista do. As the parent post said, all is well if the uber 3D desktop is avoided. It appears that the 3D drivers aren't good enough anywhere that running everything through them is a good move. I've tried out Compiz a few times myself. Each time I've thought, "Wow! that looks cool!" and then went back to stuff that didn't blow up everytime I turned around.
I don't necessarily like Ubuntu for myself (too dumbed down)....
It is possible and easy to use Ubuntu as Debian with difference package repositories. The only real reason I use Ubuntu is that I think it is a better desktop compromise on the debugged/new-and-exciting tradeoff. Plus if I want something REALLY shiney, I just snag the Sid source package and build it against Ubuntu. Gotta love Debian derivatives.
My home directory originated on a Sid installation and used this way, Ubuntu feels just like Debian to me. The "dumb down" parts will cheerfully get out of your way if you want no truck with them.
What ever happened to the punishment fitting the crime? Yeah it's wrong if some guy is short a license for a $300 dollar piece of software but it shouldn't cost $300,000 to make that right.
This is at best a place to park money for awhile. The day of the MS stock millionaire is long over. As for Vista, I know we'll be deploying but it will be at least another year and a half or Service Pack 2 which ever comes first. And it will only come in on replacement machines at that. I suppose that is a common story everywhere. I'm sure there are various ways to make Vista a success on paper but if all Vista sales commonly do is get a sale that otherwise would have been XP then that is MS doing all the running they can do to stay in one place while MS-tactic adapted competitors nip at their heels.
Just make that hidden volume and put 2girls1cup and 2girls1finger in it. Then make them take a good hour or two beating the passphrase to it out of you.
It is short for "Suppressive Person". In Scientology, an SP is anyone who is actively impeding the Church or questioning it's teachings. Being an SP is attributed to gross personal flaws and they will assign the label to threats both perceived and real and internal or external. Furthermore, they believe SPs are "Fair Game" and may be "sued, tricked, lied to, or destroyed" by any possible means. People will be branded SPs for things questioning family members too closely about their new church for instance but the application of the label is much much broader than that.
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Try working as a mail admin for awhile. The guy WAS being restrained. I could use much worse language and still get nowhere near the grief and frustration spammers cause me.
You aren't the sort most of us have big problems with. You mentioned a "visa" after all. The ones that hop the border then fly Mexican flags in protest when they discover we aren't all swimmingly happy about them being here on the other hand....... And don't me started on "La Reconquista" and how reputably Southern Mexicans like to bitch about "Undocumentados".
Not necessarily. Linux is supplied with things like EEE PCs and we'll be seeing it on more and more phones and portable devices. It isn't going to storm big desktop PCs and full size laptops anytime soon but nonetheless devices capable of running general Linux apps are falling into more and more consumer hands. Furthermore, so-called "Linux Desktop" apps are becoming ever more polished and finding their way onto Windows installs. A multitude commonly using such apps would be very frightening for Microsoft. It sets up a situation where the next new computer might not need to run MS. It's what MS did to the old-line IT vendors as a young feisty company and a situation is developing where it could be done to them.
Lexmark has long snubbed Linux in the driver department. It goes back for years.
Comets crash into things quite often, and should be extinct by now if the solar system is millions of years old. The Oort cloud theory suggest that a cloud of matter 50000 AU away is replenishing our supply, but it doesn't provide a plausible mechanism for launching comets out of the cloud and into the inner solar system (at least, from what I have read about it).
Two issues. First off, the Oort cloud occupies the outermost regions of the area defined by the Sun's gravitational field. At that distance, things like other stars and gas and dust clouds the solar system is passing through as it orbits the galactic center can easily perturb the multitude of small bodies within it. That seems very plausible to me. Secondly, current astronomical consensus holds that most short period comets have their origins in the Kuiper belt which is just beyond Neptune's orbit. You can read all about this here:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/hovind/howgood-yea.html#proof3
but I'll quote a short excerpt for immediate convenience:
but modern studies of short-period comets have identified their probable origin in a region of space now named the Kuiper Belt, which resembles a flattened ring just beyond the orbit of Neptune. Computer simulations show that such a source would account beautifully for the low-inclination, short-period, prograde orbits, and other features associated with short-period comets. The Kuiper Belt probably has anywhere from 100 million to several billion comets, which probably formed there when the planets formed. The gradual pull of the giant gas planets over time continually send a few of those comets towards the sun. Thus, the short-period comets are replenished from the Kuiper Belt. The Kuiper Belt is no longer "just" a theoretical construct. As of 1998, more than 60 of the larger objects in the Kuiper Belt have been directly observed! That translates to some 70,000 objects out there whose diameter exceeds a whopping 100 kilometers--not to mention countless numbers of normal-sized comets. Jim Foley was kind enough to pass along an Internet site for those of you who may be interested in these new discoveries. The Kuiper Belt web page (http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~jewitt/kb.html) is maintained by David Jewitt, who personally discovered many of these objects.
I suggest this link as a reputable starting point on the science of comets:
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~jewitt/HomeSite/Home.html
I have a copy of bind9 running on my router box. It's firewalled away from the outside and was only an apt-get away.
The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is a better one up to and including the multi-continent spanning Complaints Department that had the sign that spelled "Go Stick Your Head In A Pig" after it collapsed.
The core is but Silverlight can easily make direct use of Windows API calls. MS will go out of their way to make impure Silverlight use the norm. This thing is a trojan horse to needing Windows to use the web.
I can express myself and I don't need 37 pieces of flair to do it!:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Middle+Finger
Adobe appears to be moving away from PDF as "electronic paper" to "all singing all dancing Internet Document". You can now embed movies, audio, and javascript in PDF to make some sort of "active document". Personally, I think PDF has jumped the shark.
I don't think that there is any variation in the facts. Amarok's features are buggy and incomplete. Development of the current branch has stopped and a new even more backward and more buggy branch now consumes development resources. There's great amounts of fanfare even though it is presently a major step backwards.
It works and works well for me including a number of players I've thrown at it (including iPods, one of Creative's nasty little players, and my favorite "just use the filemanager"-type players). That is "variation in the facts". It is indisputable that it does everything I want it to do well. You seems to dislike it as much as I like it. I've even had the developers respond to my bugreports with relevant fixes; that may have something to do with my positive experience: I did more that whinge and tell everybody who would listen how much it sucks. I know Apple could give a damn about my experiences with the banner-ad ridden iTunes.
I'm not even going to touch KDE4 until a later release is packaged by Ubuntu. That may have something with my positive experiences too. I don't use the flavor of the week from Sourceforge. I use things that have steady maintainership and have some maturity. Amarok's been around for three years and I saw it go from something your description is fair about to something that it isn't.
Don't tell me it never works when it does for me everyday. As for the past ten users, I've been using Macs, Windows, and Linux Linux apps and ease-of-use have in fact improved, I can't say the same for Windows, and OS X has been a mixed bag. Leopard certainly wasn't more usable than Tiger for me; the new Dock and icon theme is a disaster. If you have a need to believe Linux sucks and always will forever-and-ever-without-end-AMEN then more power to you but don't assume that is everyone else's experience.
This looks like a case of YMMV. My experiences with iTunes make me want to gouge my eyes out with a fork when I use it while Amarok does a good job of getting out of my way and letting me listen to music.
First of all, I don't want to use Vista. I now run a half crippled XP because HP refuse point blank to supply XP drivers for this model.
This doesn't necessarily mean that the drivers don't exist. They'll be harder to find though. Here's what you do:
1. Go to Control Panel -> System
2. Click on the Hardware tab
3. Click the Device Manager button
4. For each device with a Red X or Yellow !
a. Right Click and get Properties
b. Click the Details tab
c. Select "Matching Device ID" from the dropdown.
5. Shake Google for those Strings. Sometimes you'll hit paydirt just searching for the part before the ampersand.
You can also use tools like AIDA32 and Unknown Device Identifier to identify the hardware. Once you've identified your hardware, you'll probably do OK with the actual manufacturer's reference drivers. While it's possible that a vendor like HP is using slightly bastardized versions of standard chipsets that thus require custom drivers, that usually isn't the case. You may even be able to get the drivers from HP themselves if there are similar models that were supplied with XP.
He got pissy with a trollistic post first. Read the parent. When Windows fans are polite, then I'm polite. When a post comes off like it was written by a parental basement dweller who thinks his experience reflects everybody's then I roast and toast accordingly. I know there is hardware that Linux doesn't support. That is a reality I've run into myself. It isn't the fault of hard working hackers that they haven't reversed engineered every piece of hardware put out by obstinate and difficult vendors. The rather large swath of hardware that DOES work is a testament to their good efforts and the efforts of others that get some specs released.
He had a bad experience with some unsupported (and unspecified) hardware and cast blame where it doesn't belong. It's a matter of both tone and clue. He has the use of neither. The nice way he could have handled it was to post the model of machine to an appropriate forum so that others who want to try Linux might get to avoid that hardware. Instead, he employed an insult: "Call me when Linux is ready for prime time." Or he could have at least dispensed with that last little comment entirely. The whole way he went about it is utterly devoid of both information and civility.
BTW, the quick test is to use a recent LiveCD to boot the prospective hardware. If that doesn't work or at least mostly work then give an install on that piece of kit a pass. You're not out much that way. And yes, it is necessary to buy hardware that is supported. It's much much easier than it used to be though there still are a few recalcitrant vendors who provide neither drivers or specs.
Incidentally, I spend quite a bit of time cleaning up the Windows hassles of others. It simply isn't so that Windows is compatible computing nirvana while Linux by contrast is utter junk that doesn't run on anything, The truth isn't nearly as neat or black and white I suspect both you and the parent poster are still too young to have learned that yet.
New laptop you say? If you truly intended to install Linux on this from the outset then you would have shopped more carefully as there are new laptops that Linux supports well. It isn't the fault of Linux that off-brand laptops are still packed with embedded bargain bin hardware.
Go back under your bridge.
They'd be sending letters demanding royalties and quoting patent numbers, and filing infringement cases when violators refused to pay. They haven't.
They're doing something much smarter. They're approaching Linux distros and companies that use Linux in their products and making slimy threats behind closed doors. SCO taught them that a loud public strategy like the one you mention arouses both the community and targets better able to defend themselves. And what do you know, that defense reaction turned out to be formidable. SCO certainly didn't succeed in trying the case in the tech press. So they are sizing up and approaching softer targets one by one and we don't hear about it until the press release from yet another company that made a "patent covenant" with MS.
The hardware may be abstracted as you say but something has to drive it and something has to host all those wonderful databases and scripting languages. The OS proper may matter less and less to the end user but it will still damn well matter to those who maintain the servers. It will have to be robust, it will have to handle many sorts of loads, and it will have to scale. No, in your picture the "server" in client/server is still going to very much matter.
2K and XP don't implement all singing all dancing 3D desktops. Compiz and Vista do. As the parent post said, all is well if the uber 3D desktop is avoided. It appears that the 3D drivers aren't good enough anywhere that running everything through them is a good move. I've tried out Compiz a few times myself. Each time I've thought, "Wow! that looks cool!" and then went back to stuff that didn't blow up everytime I turned around.
I don't necessarily like Ubuntu for myself (too dumbed down) ....
It is possible and easy to use Ubuntu as Debian with difference package repositories. The only real reason I use Ubuntu is that I think it is a better desktop compromise on the debugged/new-and-exciting tradeoff. Plus if I want something REALLY shiney, I just snag the Sid source package and build it against Ubuntu. Gotta love Debian derivatives.My home directory originated on a Sid installation and used this way, Ubuntu feels just like Debian to me. The "dumb down" parts will cheerfully get out of your way if you want no truck with them.
What ever happened to the punishment fitting the crime? Yeah it's wrong if some guy is short a license for a $300 dollar piece of software but it shouldn't cost $300,000 to make that right.
It's a good thing that cracks exist for HD-DVDs then isn't it?
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=MSFT&t=2y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=
This is at best a place to park money for awhile. The day of the MS stock millionaire is long over. As for Vista, I know we'll be deploying but it will be at least another year and a half or Service Pack 2 which ever comes first. And it will only come in on replacement machines at that. I suppose that is a common story everywhere. I'm sure there are various ways to make Vista a success on paper but if all Vista sales commonly do is get a sale that otherwise would have been XP then that is MS doing all the running they can do to stay in one place while MS-tactic adapted competitors nip at their heels.
Just make that hidden volume and put 2girls1cup and 2girls1finger in it. Then make them take a good hour or two beating the passphrase to it out of you.
Just think of the stares they'll get when they go to buy the bras.
It is short for "Suppressive Person". In Scientology, an SP is anyone who is actively impeding the Church or questioning it's teachings. Being an SP is attributed to gross personal flaws and they will assign the label to threats both perceived and real and internal or external. Furthermore, they believe SPs are "Fair Game" and may be "sued, tricked, lied to, or destroyed" by any possible means. People will be branded SPs for things questioning family members too closely about their new church for instance but the application of the label is much much broader than that.